King Ferdinand of Rumania has stated his views on the
war to Mr. Stanley Washburn, the special correspondent of the Times. He said that Rumania was moved by no cynical or material policy, but by the biggest principles of nationality. Hungary, the oppressor of men, of Rumanian blood in Transylvania, was the traditional enemy. Rumania had- come into the wax at the first moment that she thought the Allies could give her sufficient support. Re con- cluded by saying :- " The Rumanians will not falter in their allegiance to the cause, nor can the enemy wean them from their faith in England the Just, in France their Latin brother, and in Russia their immediate neighbour. Yet the Rumanians pray that, in spite of their existing exigencies and of their own huge problems, the Allies-twill not allow the affairs of Rumania, who has staked her all -in this conflict, to pass into the back of their minds and stiffer that she meet the fate either •of Belgium or of Serbia."
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