NICOLAE TITULESCU

''Nicolae Titulescu'''  (March 4, 1882 -  March 17, 1941) was a well-known Romanian diplomat, at various times government minister, finance and Minister of Foreign Affairs  and for two terms President of the General Assembly of the League of Nations (1930-32).

Titulescu had long been interested in politics and international relations however, and in 1912 entered parliament as an MP for the Democratic-Conservative Party of Take Ionescu, taking his first cabinet post, as Finance Minister, five years later. Moving to Paris at the close of World War I he formed the International Romanian Committee, made up of prominent Romanian politicians and sympathisers, which lobbied for the unification of Transylvania with the rest of Romania.
Following Romania’s success at Versailles, Titulescu became a major player on the world stage, and took a leading role in the creation of the League of Nations in 1921, an organisation he would twice later lead, in 1930 and 1931. In this role he pursued his policy of resolving conflict through multi-lateral negotiation. Titulescu, an Anglophile, served as Romania’s ambassador to London from 1921-27, before returning home to take the post of Foreign Minister, a job he would hold on and off until 1936. Titulescu was one of nature’s liberals, and betrayed leftist sympathies on a number of occasions, including support for the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War.. He was allowed to return to Romania briefly, in 1937, but otherwise lived in Cannes, France, until his death in 1941,

1. He was appointed Finance Minister in

1. 1912
2. 1917
3. 1907

2. He has a leading role in creating the League of Nations in

1. 1930
2. 1931
3. 1921

3. He was the Romanian ambassador to London from

1. 1930-1931
2. 1922-1927
3. 1936-1937

By Prof. Raluca Dabija