Raoul Bossy

Raoul V. Bossy (1895–1975) was a Romanian diplomat.

Born in 1894 he pursued his university studies at the Sorbonne, in Paris, where he graduated as Licentiate in Law. He continued his studies at the Diplomatic Section of the École Libre des Sciences Politiques (Diplomatic Section), in Paris.

He started his career as diplomat in 1918, after the end of World War I, being private secretary of the Minister of Foreign Affairs.

His next assignment was Second secretary of the Romanian legation in Rome (1921–23). In this interval he also was a member of the Romanian delegation to the League of Nations. Raoul Bossy was also member of the Romanian delegation to the Economical International Conference in Genoa (April 10-May 19, 1922) and Romanian Delegate to the International Agriculture Institute in Rome. In 1923 he was recalled and worked as political advisor at the Prime Minister’s Office under Ion I.C. Brătianu (1923–26). He then returned to Rome as first secretary of the Romanian legation (1926–27). During the minority of King Michael of Romania (1927–30) he was appointed secretary general of the Regency, returning to his diplomatic career as counsellor of Romanian legation in Vienna (1931–34).

In 1934 he was promoted minister plenipotentiary, being assigned to head the legations in Helsinki (1934–36), Budapest (1936–39), Rome (1939–40), Bern (1940–41) and Berlin (1941–43).

In 1943 he resigned because of his disagreements with the policies of Ion Antonescu, being appointed Permanent Delegate and Chief Liaison Officer of the Romanian Red Cross to the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva, the League of Red Cross Societies, and the International Union for Child Welfare.

Raoul Bossy was member of the

• Académie Diplomatique Internationale of Paris
• Romanian Association for a United Europe
• Ecole Libre des Sciences et des Lettres
• University Institute Carol I of Paris
• Romanian Royal Society of Geography.

Raoul Bossy has also lectured in Canada under the sponsorship of the Canadian Institute of International Affairs of Toronto.

Works

• Politica externă a României între anii 1873-1880, privită dela Agenția diplomatică din Roma. Academia Română, Studii și cercetări 14. București: Cultura Natională, 1928. On Romanian foreign policy between 1873 and 1880.
• Agenția diplomatică a României în Paris şi legăturile politice franco-române sub Cuza-Vod. Bucureşti: Cartea Românească, 1931.

On political relations between France and Romania.

• “Agenția diplomatică a României la Belgrad și legăturile politice româno-sârbe sub Cuza Vodă.” Academia Română, Memoriile secțiunii istorice, s. 3, t. 15 (1934), mem. 1: 2-59. On political relations between Romania and Serbia between 1859 and 1866.
• Mărturii finlandeze despre România. București: Cartea Românească, 1937. On memoirs of Finnish officers in the Russian armies that occupied Romania in the 19th century.
• “Urme românești în Miază-Noapte : 1. Altă replică a portretului lui Mihai Viteazul; 2. Cheia cetății Hotinului.” Academia Română, Memoriile secțiunii istorice, s. 3, t. 19 (1937), mem. 3: 47-49.
• L’Autriche et les Principautés-Unies. Académie roumaine, Etudes et recherches 10. Bucarest: Moniteur officiel et Imprimerie de l’Etat, Imprimerie Nationale, 1938. On relations between Austria and the Romanian Principalities.
• “Vechi năzuințe federaliste în sud-estul Europei: memoriu prezentat in ședința deia 9 Februare 1940.” Academia Română, Memoriile secțiunii istorice, s. 3,

t. 22 (1939-1940): 437-451. On south-eastern trends towards European federation.

• A Danish Traveller in the Romanian Principalities, Romanian Academy, 1941.
• Austrian Propaganda Against the Union of the Romanian Principalities, Romanian Academy, 1941.
• Federalist trends in central and south-east Europe, Paris, Cahiers du Monde Nouveau, January 1949.
• “Romania: a Barrier Nation”, Toronto, International Journal, January 1952.
• Religious Persecutions in Captive Romania”, Journal of Central European Affairs, July 1955.
• Russian diplomacy and the Union to the Romanian Principalities - Revue d’Histoire Diplomatique, July 1962.
• Recollections of a Romanian diplomat 1918-1969, Hoover Press, 2003 (ISBN 0817929517)
• Journal (November 2, 1940 – July 9, 1969) - Editura Encyclopedica, Bucuresti, 2001.

References

• Neagoe, Stelian. "Studiu introductiv." In Bossy, Raoul V. Amintiri din viaţa diplomatică : 1918-1940." Ed. Stelian Neagoe. 2 v. Bucureşti : Humanitas, 1993. Vol. 1, pp. 5-29.
• Baron Georges de Serdici, baron, Papers, 1947-1990 Folder 6 1950 -Correspondence with Raoul Bossy - Hoover Institution Archives Stanford University
• Assembly of Captive European Nations, Records, 1953-1972 Immigration History Research Center - University of Minnesota – Box 41, Folder 10 Raoul Bossy 1954-1963
• Istoria Transilvaniei vol. II. Ed. George Bariţiu, Cluj, 1997