The Royal Palace in Bucharest, Romania. A postcard altered to show the German flag flying over the palace.
Bucuresti. Palatul Regal, Königliches SchlossBucharest. Royal Palace
"Our peace terms are so mild that they are as a generous gift offered to vanquished Rumania and are not at all to be made a subject for negotiations. In no case are these negotiations to assume the character of trading or bargaining. If Rumania refuses to conclude peace on the basis laid down by us our answer can only be a resumption of hostilities.I consider it highly probable that the Rumanian government will run that risk to prove her necessity in the eyes of the Western Powers and her own population. But it is just as probable that after breaking off negotiations she will just as quickly turn back and give way before our superior forces.At the worst a short campaign would result in the total collapse of Rumania."
Excerpt from a February 27, 1918 pro-memoria by Hungarian Count Stephen Tisza, Royal Hungarian Premier of the Austro-Hungarian Dual Monarchy, delivered to Ottokar Czernin with the request he pass it to Austro-Hungarian Emperor Karl. Czernin, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Austria-Hungary's lead representative at the Brest-Litovsk peace negotiations with Russia, moved on to negotiations with Romania. With Russia out of the war, Romania's position was untenable.
In the World War by Count Ottokar Czernin, page 288, copyright © 1920, by Harper & Brothers, publisher: Harper and Brothers, publication date: 1920
1918-02-27, 1918, February, Tisza, Stephen Tisza, Romania, Rumania
