History of Orkney should continue to be observed in Orkney and Shetland. Thus the udal succession and mode of land tenure (that is, absolute freehold as distinguished from feudal tenure) lingered to some extent, and the remaining udallers held their lands and passed them on without written title. The islands cluster round the huge deep-water anchorage of Scapa Flow like a protecting hand, and in both World War I and World War II, the Royal Navy had a major base there, enabling them to challenge any attempt by German warships to emerge into the ocean through the Norwegian Sea. After the Armistice in
Romania's foreign policy in the years preceding the outbreak of the World War I Triple Entente was a real fact". Romania's foreign policy in the years preceding the outbreak of the World War I At the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, the international system was marked by the rivalry between the Great Powers for the control of the Extra-European world. In Europe, Germany had become the main power and its behavior on the continent produced an extraordinary distance and reconstitution of the alliances in relation to the precursory decades Romania was caught in these games of power. On the one hand, it was an object of the