[19] “The Thrust to the East.”
[20] Loans are made only to the rich.
[21] Count Tisza, leader of the Hungarian Conservatives and ultimately assassinated in Budapest by a Hungarian Socialist.
[22] Abandon Austria and we will abandon the French.
[23] The opportune moment.
[24] The father of M. Bratiano was the celebrated Rumanian patriot who, in 1878, was tricked out of Bessarabia by Prince Gortchakoff, the Russian Envoy, at the Treaty of Vienna.
[25] Count Czernin was at this period Austro-Hungarian Minister in Bucharest; he succeeded Count Berchtold as Chancellor in the Dual Monarchy after the death of the Emperor Francis Joseph.
[26] An Hungarian province at the confluence of the Danube and the Theiss, N.E. of Belgrade.
[27] In the war of 1877 between Russia and Turkey, Rumania had come to the rescue of Russia when the Russian army was held up by the Turks under Osman Pasha at Plevna.
[28] The husband of Francesca da Rimini, who killed his wife and her lover.