How would an Allied promise to "supply" Romania sway that country?
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For a detailed description I would suggest The Romanian Battlefront in World War I by Glenn Torrey. The sparknotes answer is the 300 tons of daily supplies was a polite fiction. The allies claimed Romania would be supplied via Russia, or later via a successful breakout at Salonika. As the Russians were woefully short of the supplies Romania would need most (ammunition, artillery, machineguns) and the troops at Salonika were going exactly nowhere, the allies knew they weren't actually going to follow through. Their main barganing chip was promising the Romanians territory after the war.
The Romanians "in the know" (King Ferdinand, his senior generals, some of the pro-war civilian government) also suspected there was essentially 0 chance of the allies actually providing 300 tons of supplies a day. However Romania had long-standing territorial interests in Austria-Hungry and that combined with the general belief among both the Romanians and the allies that any change in the balance of power between the Allies and Central Powers would end the war, caused the Romanians to go for it anyway. Basically they figured the Allies would provide SOME of the 300 tons a day, and that would be enough to let the Romanian army beat the "inferior" Austro-Hungarian troops, destabilize the entirety of the Central Powers (who were assumed to be stretched to the breaking point) and end the war before the Romanian army was exhausted. In reality both the Allies and the Romanians were deluding themselves, and the resulting campaign was, IMO, the most tragic farce of the entire war apart from the repeated idiocy perpetrated by the Italians along the Isonzo river!
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