Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I te tau i muri mai, ka kitea a Romania i waenganui i te Soviet Union me Tiamana Nazi. I te mutunga o te tau 1940, kua
I tukuna a Bessarabia ki te Soviet Union, i tukuna a Northern Transylvania ki te pro-Nazi Hungary. Whai muri i te paheketanga o "Jurnalul Literar", ka noho tonu a Călinescu ki "Iașul". I roto ano i te "Iașul", i tuhia e Ivașcu tetahi pou kaupapa here a iwi ke, "Situația" ("Te Tuunga"), i tino whakahe i te kingi, i pouri i te whakatata mai o te whenua ki a Tiamana Tiamana, me te whakamoemiti ki nga Allies Western. I te Hōngongoi 1940, ka hopukina ia, i raro i te uiuinga mana.