Monarch Michael of Romania Religion Romanian Orthodox Parents Ion Titulescu Books Romania's foreign policy | Preceded by Ion I. C. Bratianu Name Nicolae Titulescu Succeeded by Gheorghe Mironescu Grandparents Nicolae Economu | |
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Born March 4, 1882
Craiova, Romania ( 1882-03-04 ) Died March 17, 1941, Cannes, France Education Carol I National College (1900) | ||
Via a lui nicolae titulescu
Nicolae Titulescu ([nikoˈla.e tituˈlesku]; March 4, 1882 – March 17, 1941) was a well-known Romanian diplomat, at various times government minister, finance and foreign minister, and for two terms President of the General Assembly of the League of Nations (1930–32).
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- Via a lui nicolae titulescu
- Cursurile Internaionale Nicolae Titulescu pentru tineri diplomai A 25 a Ediie
- Early years
- Political career
- Exile and death
- References
Cursurile Internaţionale „Nicolae Titulescu” pentru tineri diplomaţi - A 25-a Ediţie
Early years
Nicolae Titulescu was born in Craiova, the son of a solicitor. He passed through his childhood at his father's estate in Titulesti, Olt County. Upon graduating with honours in 1900 from the Carol I High School in Craiova, he studied law in Paris, obtaining his doctorate with the thesis Essai sur une theorie des droits eventuels. In 1905, Titulescu returned to Romania as a professor of law at the University of Iasi, and in 1907 he moved to Bucharest.
Political career
Following the Romanian elections of 1912, he became a parliamentarian with the Conservative-Democrat Party led by Take Ionescu, and five years later he became a member of the government of Ion I. C. Bratianu as Minister of Finance.
In the summer of 1918, together with other prominent Romanians (Take Ionescu, Octavian Goga, Traian Vuia, Constantin Mille), Titulescu formed, in Paris, the National Romanian Committee, with the purpose of promoting in international public opinion the right of the Romanian people to national unity, the committee being officially recognised as the plenipotentiary de facto organ of the Romanian nation.
From 1927 to 1928, Titulescu was the Minister of Foreign Affairs. (See also Savel Radulescu).
Beginning in 1921, Titulescu functioned as the permanent representative of Romania to the League of Nations in Geneva. He was chosen twice (in 1930 and 1931) to be the president of that organization. In this capacity, he fought for the preservation of stable borders through the maintenance of peace, for good relations between both large and small neighboring states, for the respect of the sovereignty and equality of all nations in the international community, for collective security, and the prevention of aggression.
In June 1936, Titulescu famously reacted to the buffoonery exhibited by the Italian journalists when Emperor Haile Selassie I spoke to the League after Ethiopia had been invaded and occupied by Fascist Italy. He jumped to his feet and shouted: "To the door with the savages!" ("A la porte les sauvages!").
Exile and death
Later in 1936, King Carol II removed Titulescu from all official positions, asking him to leave the country. Settling first in Switzerland, he later moved to France. While in exile, Nicolae Titulescu continued through conferences and newspaper articles to propagate the idea of the preservation of peace, perceiving the danger of a war that was to come all too soon after. He returned to Romania in November 1937, partly through the efforts of Iuliu Maniu.
In 1937, Titulescu again left Romania and took refuge in France. At Cannes, he denounced the Romanian Fascist regime. In 1941, Nicolae Titulescu died in Cannes following a long illness. In his will, he asked to be buried in Romania.
In 1989, after the fall of the communist Romanian government during the Romanian Revolution, Titulescu's request became possible. On 14 March 1992, his remains were reburied in the Sfanta Ecaterina cemetery in Scheii Brasovului, next to St. Nicholas Church, Brasov after a difficult legal procedure organized by Jean-Paul Carteron, a French attorney.