A Painful but Necessary Peace. Alexandru Marghiloman and the Peace of Bucharest - April 27/ May 7, 1918

The Bucharest Peace Treaty, signed by Romania with Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey on April 27/ May 7, 1918, during the First World War, was imposed on Romania as a result of Tsarist Russia's withdrawal from the warand the real danger that Romania be completely occupied and dismantled as a state. Through this treaty, Romania lost the interior of the Carpathian arc and Dobrogea, and from an economic point of view, the privileges on the exploitation of its own production of wheat, oil and wood. From a military point of view, he was required to demobilize 8 divisions. The one appointed by King Ferdinand I to sign this burden some but necessary treaty was Alexandru Marghiloman, after other important political leaders of the time refused to do so. By as suming this responsibility by the Buzoan political leader, the one who always had the interests of the country in mind, it was possible to avoid the occupation of the country by Germany and its allies, the maintenance of the Romanian state, the army and the seriously threate ned monarchy. The Bucharest Peace was an act of nationals salvation, which allowed the resumption of the military offensive against the Central Powers, when the conditions became favorable again, and the triumph of the Romanian nation, at the end of the First World War.