Mihail Fărcășanu

[citation needed] His most important work is Frunzele nu mai sunt aceleași ("The Leaves Are No Longer the Same"), published in 1946 under the pen name Mihail Villara.

[citation needed] In 1595, Ağa Fărcaș led an army across the Danube, conquering the Bulgarian citadel Nikopol and marching to Vidin, where he was defeated by the Ottomans, and where he eventually died.

In Romania it was published in 1940 under the title Monarhia socială ("Social Monarchy") by Editura Fundației pentru Literatură și Artă Regele Carol II.

[citation needed] The magazine carried articles signed by Romanian personalities such as Nicolae Iorga, Gheorghe Brătianu, Tudor Arghezi, Matila Ghyka, K. H. Zambaccian, Al. O. Teodoreanu, Cella Delavrancea, Militza Pătrașcu and foreign personalities such as Derek Patmore, Henry Baerlein, and journalist Sir Arthur Beverley Baxter.

[citation needed] Right after the royal coup of August 23, 1944, the Viitorul newspaper was reborn and Mihail Fărcășanu was appointed editor-in-chief.

[4] He further claimed that when he published in the newspaper the translation of Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls, the communist press called him a fascist.

[4] In line with the Denazification process taking place in European countries formerly ruled by pro-Nazi regimes, the post-war government took steps to cleanse the police and safety services.

[citation needed] Later that year, Pravda published an article about Mihail Fărcășanu entitled 'Fărcășanu's gang in which PNL and PNȚ stood accused of organizing a demonstration in support General Rădescu, which by the time had a falling-out with the Soviets.

[citation needed] In autumn 1945, Fărcășanu participated, as a representative of the National Liberal Youth, in organising a great rally in the Piața Palatului (now Revolution Square, Bucharest), on November 8, the king's birthday.

[citation needed] On the last day of 1945 a delegation of the allied powers arrived in Bucharest, led by Archibald Clark Kerr, 1st Baron Inverchapel, W. Averell Harriman and Andrey Januaryevich Vyshinskiy.

[citation needed] In this period Fărcășanu organised three conferences that had to be held in the grand hall of the Fundației Carol I theater on May 12, 19 and 26, 1945.

Dar ele nu se pot menține decât cu jertfe ("Freedom is sometimes gained without sacrifice.

But maintaining it calls for sacrifice"), the conferences, where ten associate professors announced their arrival, had the following program: At the first talk, after the first words spoken by Fărcășanu, a group of communist activists started a general riot screaming Vi s-au luat moșiile!

[6] The Liberal Party's general secretary Dinu Brătianu, who had worked with Teohari Georgescu during the Rădescu government, convinced Fărcășanu to reschedule the conferences to avoid disruption by the communists.

The report claimed that Mihail Romniceanu had given a secret order, which was delivered by his secretary Nicolae Magherescu to all the party organisations.

[citation needed] This order allegedly said that the Liberal Party should initiate its own secret police to participate in all elections to ensure their proper organisation.

He was helped in this endeavor by long-time friend Matei Ghica-Cantacuzino, a fighter pilot who had participated in the military operations in the war against the Soviet Union, reaching Stalingrad, where he took part in the bombing of the railway station on October 5, 1942.

With a damaged plane, having practically no navigation instruments and very limited fuel, the pilot started crossing the Adriatic Sea.

Ivor Porter, who at that time was British SOE and was working at the Embassy of the United Kingdom in Romania, had been informed about the escape attempt.

Thus Mihail Fărcășanu is called Andrei Cosmin, Matei Ghica-Cantacuzino is Ștefan Criveanu, and Ivor Porter is Chris Nelson.

[9][10][11] Fărcășanu and his wife Pia settled in New York City where they soon became some of the most active members of the Romanian emigrants to the United States.

[12] After the end of World War II, the great visionaries of a united Europe, among which Winston Churchill, Jean Monnet, François Mitterrand, Robert Schuman, Altiero Spinelli, Konrad Adenauer, Grigore Gafencu, Alcide de Gasperi, and Paul-Henri Spaak felt the need of an international organism aiming at a unification of the various nations, the respect of human rights and keeping the peace.

Romania was represented by Grigore Gafencu, Nicolae Caranfil, Mihail Fărcășanu, and Iancu Zissu, who signed the documents in capacity of founding members.

The Romanian Section of the European Movement was initially headed by Grigore Gafencu, who had remarkable contributions both at the Hague Congress and in the following period.

House in Georgetown (Washington, D.C.) where Mihail Fărcășanu lived