The Romanian and Soviet Military Potential – As a Means of Security in relation to the Draft Convention on the Reduction and Limitation of Armaments Debated at the League of Nations, within the Disarmament Conference of Geneva, from the period 1920-1934 –

Abstract

During the period analysed in this research, in order to try to remedy the deficit situation in the Armed Forces, the country’s authorities took some legislative measures, including the “Law on the Organization of the Nation and the Territory for Time of War”, promulgated on 23 April 1933, in which it was specified that “the organization of the nation and the territory has as its purpose the capitalization on all the country’s forces and resources to ensure national defence”. The act basically stipulated obligations for the conscious engagement of the entire people in the effort to strengthen the national defence, the development of own defence industry, agriculture and communications. In the same context, the importance of the Convention on the Definition of Aggression played a major role for Romania in the subsequent negotiations for the normalization of diplomatic relations with the USSR, which was accomplished on 9 June 1934.