The Union of Bassarabia with Romania as Reflected in the Narrative of Alexandru Marghiloman: People and Action

Our work aims to highlight the contribution of Alexandru Marghiloman to the union of Bessarabia with Romania, as reflected in the speeches he gave in the Parliament or within various festive gatherings. Some of his discourses were printed, others reported in the press of the time or in his memoirs. Aware of the importance of this historic act and of his own role, Alexandru Marghiloman accurately captured the complexity and drama of both the internal and external context in which the 1918 Union took place. The unification of Bessarabia with Romania was, in his opinion, the result of "a Pronation ..., that one may call Providence, or the genius of the race [...] the first ray of light" that foresaw the Great Union. Among the Bessarabian personalities with whom Alexandru Marghiloman carried out this act, he mentions particularly the names of Ion Inculeț, Daniel Ciugureanu, Pantelimon Halippa and Constantin Stere.