20-24 septembrie 2009 - Biblioteca Metropolitana Bucuresti

896 Viorel Stănilă“this development somehow decreases the very prestige of this nationalmovement and of course its meaning and power of expansion among theAlbanians and even among the Aromanians.”All three were instruments which were considered by Romaniandiplomats to reach these objectives: the economical one, the culturalideologicalone and the educational one, all closely united by a relationshipof interdependence. But especially, all claiming considerable resources.This is why M. Arion attracts the attention of his minister concerning a verybalanced decision concerning a “more active policy in Albania, ” quoting thereport no. 34594/926 of the plenipotentiary minister of Romania in Tirana,Ion Trandafirescu: ”an awakening of Romanian consciousness among thepopulation of Romanian origins in Albania [...] cannot be built anywayany differently but through an intensive propaganda on national, economicand cultural ground, made based on a specially established program, withtrained people and with many, many material sacrifices.”V. ConclusionMet with the most recent theories of identity, the evaluations ofour inter-bellum diplomats from Tirana confirm their pertinence. Theirappreciations remain valid beyond the point they were spoken.The reasonable question anyone would ask at this point is: “howprepared was the politic authority in Bucharest to harness the excellentexpertise the professionals in the diplomatic service supplies?”Well, to those used to diplomatic language, the assertiveness with whichsome solution to the problems of Aromanians are suggested in our sourcesis also a hazy critique to the address of the political leaders in Bucharestwho, unable to lend their whole attention and to prioritize according to thereal interests of the country because of their own personal or common goals.Suggesting “the government should decide if it considers a more activepolicy would be or not be fit in Albania, ” M. Arion hints to the incapacityof some governors in Bucharest to take full political responsibility beyondconjunctures and petty party calculus.As it happened many times in modern and contemporary Romanianhistory, in this issue of Aromanians the political agent did not rise to thelevel of the requirements and had compromised the efforts of professionalsfrom public institutions through lack of vision and decision. For example,one can simply remind of the way in which the vast inter-bellum workof colonization in Romania of the Aromanians had become an object of