ROMANIAN-BRITISH ECONOMIC AND MILITARY POLICIES IN THE INTERWAR PERIOD

• Main Author: Marusia CÎRSTEA
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Editura Academiei Oamenilor de Ştiinţă din România 2014-11-01
• Series: Annals: Series on History and Archaeology (Academy of Romanian Scientists)
• Subjects: Romania; the Black Sea; Ta ş aul port; T ă b ă c ă riei Lake; Payment Agreement; the mining subsoil regime; Financial iss ues; Cernavod ă Canal
• Online Access: http://aos.ro/wp-content/anale/IVol6Nr2Art.2.pdf

The article entitled Romanian-British economic and military policies in the interwar period emphasises important areas of diplomatic, economic and military cooperation between Romania and Great Britain in the 1920-1939 period. Throughout this period, Romanian diplomacy tenaciously pursued international cooperation and equality among states, fighting revisionism and eliminating war from the international life. In order to fulfil these designs, Romania cooperated with democratic countries (Great Britain, France, and others). Thus, the main issues of Romania’s relationship with Great Britain – in the 1920-1939 period – concerned: the settling of Romania’s war debt to England; the issue of war reparations; the economic and financial rapports; the mining subsoil regime (especially that of oil) in Romania; trade treaties and customs tariffs between the two countries. In the 1934-1939 period, relations between the two countries were directed at furthering their economic cooperation by: improving Payment Agreements; increasing commercial exchanges in a significant manner; as well as more extensive military cooperation (by shipping military technique to Romania and building a commercial and military naval port on the Black Sea).