[39] Marasesti is a village in the Sereth Valley, where six Rumanian divisions repelled repeated assaults by numerically superior German and Austro-Hungarian forces under Field-Marshal Mackensen. The Rumanians fought unsupported and caused 100,000 casualties in the enemy ranks. They held their positions until the signature of peace at Bucharest.
[40] General Nivelles.
[41] To Paris.
[42] To Berlin.
[43] Speech of April 2nd, 1917.
[44] Message of December 4th, 1917.
[45] Declaration of September 27th, 1918.
[46] In a speech at Birmingham University on December 12, 1918, Lord Robert Cecil said: “Our new ‘Society of Nations’ must not be a group, however large and important. It is absolutely essential that the ‘League of Nations’ should be open to every nation which can be trusted by its fellows to accept ‘ex animo,’ the principles and basis of such a Society.”
[47] In the original—
“Sceptre and crown will tumble down,
And in the level dust be laid,” etc.