Timpul Nou, oficios al Senatului Militar Român Central al Ofiţerilor şi Soldaţilor din Viena (noiembrie-decembrie 1918)
Timpul Nou [New Time], Periodical of the Romanian Central Military Senate of the Officers and Soldiers from Vienna (November-December 1918)

Summary/Abstract: In the autumn of the year 1918, in imperial Vienna, on the background of the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, the Romanian Central Military Senate of Officers and Soldiers (Fig. 2), an organism constituted as a result of Iuliu Maniu’s struggle, coordinated the action of concentrating, organizing and sending the Romanian soldiers back home. At the same time, it contributed to maintaining the security and the public policy, saving the town from aggressions, robberies, brigandages as well as from the advance of the ideas promoted by the Bolshevik Revolution. The activity of the Romanian Central Military Senate during the period of October-November 1918, was supported by the Timpul Nou [New Time] journal (Fig. 1), the publication of this organism. At the leadership of this journal was nominated Filimon Taniac from Bukovina as chief-editor, followed by Ioan Brotea, Gavril Alvirescu, Dumitru Gavrilescu and George Halaverici as editors. For editing this journal in optimal graphic conditions, following the same captain Crişan’s proposal, the Romanian section of the national typography from Vienna was subordinated to the Romanian Central Military Senate, while for the editing fund there were initiated more collections among the soldiers, being added the sums deriving from previous donations belonging to particular persons. Due to this journal, the Romanian officers and soldiers could be informed about the activity of the Romanian Central Military Senate and could be mobilized with the intention of supporting it, could be informed about the political events from Transylvania, Banat and Bucovina, about the activity of the national councils from Arad and Chernivtsi etc. The Timpul Nou [New Time] journal represented the unique modality for spreading the pieces of information regarding the organization and the dispatch of the Romanian soldiers, the evolution of the military and political events as well as the main modality for persuading the Romanian soldiers to obey the Romanian Central Military Senate.

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