During World War I, he participated as a lieutenant and received the Order of Michael the Brave for his successful flight from Paris to Iași over Central Powers positions held by German, Ottoman, and Bulgarian troops.

[1] After the war, he became a journalist and founded the Timpul Familiei newspaper, which was translated in French and distributed in many countries.

After Northern Transylvania was annexed by Hungary as a result of the Second Vienna Award, and Bessarabia, Northern Bukovina, and the Hertsa region were annexed by the Soviet Union in 1940, he was sent as ambassador to Moscow, where he remained until the beginning of the war against the Soviet Union on 21 June 1941.

During World War II, he collaborated with the Tribune de Genève and other newspapers across Europe.

[6] Patrick Leigh Fermor described him as "one of the best-looking men I've ever seen, a person of enormous charm and courage".