November 17, 1912
Queen Elisabeth of Romania, the consort of King Carol, and better known as the writer, Carmen Sylva, has written to a Hungarian friend about her pain over the Balkan war.
The letter was sent to Baroness Berthan von Suttner. "Dearest Madame, Your letter came to me almost like an outcry of pain on the very day when a fresh war is breaking out before our very doors. Only the Danube rolls its big swollen floods between us and the dire disaster. The King has done what was in his power to make peace between all those excited peoples, these young nations, who want to feel and manifest their strength in the only manner known upon our dark earth. I cannot write more, as I do not not know what the small hours of the rising day announce. All is dark like the torrents of rain that hid the sky since so many months. May your work prosper in the enlightened countries you are visiting -- this is my great wishes, dear Madame, Ever yours, Elizabeth (Carmen Sylva)"
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