It would have interfered with the plans made for the isolation of
France at that secret meeting in the Black Forest. This coalition had
to be broken up. It _was_ broken up.
At the crucial stage of the Balkan war, experts in Eastern questions
turned curious eyes toward Roumania, the most advanced and the
strongest of the Balkan States. The sway and influence behind
Roumania controls the situation in the Balkans. Who is the power
holding this key to the situation? Germany and Austria. The
appearance of an army on Roumania's southwestern frontier would have
made a vast difference in the success of the Balkan arms against the
Turk. This army, however, did not appear until the Allies had
finished fighting Turkey and had begun to fight themselves. I shall
show you why this army was withheld.
The ruling house in Roumania is closely allied and related to the
house of Hohenzollern. I need only mention Carmen Sylva, the Queen of
Roumania, and King Charles, both German by birth. The direct
commercial relationship between Germany and Roumania is also very
great. Roumania, of all the Balkan countries, has least felt the yoke
of the Turk and the intense hatred of the Turk rampant in the rest of
the Balkan States is not characteristic of Carmen Sylva's domains.
Russo-French machinations producing tangible results in Bulgaria,
Servia, Montenegro and Albania met with only indifferent success in
Roumania.
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