As a political model for the young democracy in interwar Romania,
as a protector against threats to the sovereignty and integrity of the state, as
a cultural model, and as a daily life, America represented for Romania a
reference point, a factor of stability and progress. America was a model and
ally of the civilized world!
Unfortunately, isolated in the interwar period from the political realities
on the continent, America saw how, at the end of the ‘30s, the political
creation of the Paris Peace Conference collapsed, the US being invited to
“abandon jazz” to enter a n[...]