[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. [48] The former Austro-Hungarian Foreign Office in Vienna. [49] During the Conference, a well-known Pole, whose reputation for shrewd observation is established, remarked: “Mr. Lloyd George has a passion for popularity and is the most popular man in Paris, but the ‘Tiger’ is running the British Empire.” [50] The ideal is reached for a moment only. Transcriber’s Notes Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed. Simple typographical errors were corrected; occasional unbalanced quotation marks retained. Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained. Text uses both “Fraternalization” and “Fraternization”. Page 133: “were” was missing in “Fundamentally, they were wrong”; changed here. Page 150: “battles are not merely battues” was printed that way, and may have been intentional. Page 175: “bass-relief” was printed that way. Page 188: “nobless oblige” was printed that way. Footnote 2, originally Footnote 1 on page 20: “Enos-Midia line” appeared to have been misprinted as “Encs-Midia line”; changed here. Footnote 18, originally Footnote 1 on page 63, refers to a map. The map was included in the 1920 edition, printed in Great Britain, but not in this 1922 edition, printed in the United States. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Old Europe's Suicide, by Christopher Birdwood Thomson