AUREL COSMA JR. – CONTRIBUŢII LA CONFERINŢA DE PACE (1946)
AUREL COSMA JR. – CONTRIBUTIONS TO PARIS PEACE CONFERENCE (1946)

Summary/Abstract: Aurel Cosma jr., one of the prominent personalities in the 20th century Banat, an exponent of the Romanian culture and one of the most important political activists, had a notable contribution in preparing the works of the future peace conference after World War II. The government‘s approach intensified after the events of 1940 which had shaken both the Romanian public opinion and governmental circles in Bucharest. To organize the coming peace, many institutions and personalities, men of science, politicians, diplomats, and library experts were contacted within the national strategy schedule, the government understanding that the future of Romania depended on the way the materials and the whole process would be prepared. As a former deputy in the Parliament commission for foreign affairs and councilor at the Ministry of National Propaganda, Aurel Cosma jr. involved himself in the side-scenes of the future conference, both as a member of the organizing committee and an author of library reports. The present study follows all this aspects in developing, according to the evolution of external events, a proof of his exceptional professional abilities, for which in change he payed a high price - his own liberty.

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