Following Carol's death and Ferdinand I's ascension to the throne, his pro-Entente activism intensified. He was at the forefront of a major grouping of various public figures who, despite differences in politics, supported an alliance with France and Britain, including Nicolae Filipescu, Constantin Istrati, Octavian Goga, Vasile Lucaciu, Barbu Ştefănescu-Delavrancea, Nicolae Iorga, Simion Mândrescu, Ioan Cantacuzino, Nicolae Xenopol, N. D. Cocea, Constantin Mille, as well as Take Ionescu's brother Thoma. Their adversary Christian Rakovsky accused Mille, a former socialist, of using his two dailies, "Adevărul" and "Dimineaţa", as venues for Takist propaganda, and claimed that this was accomplished "under the mask of independence" (additionally, he stated: " thus compensated for the weakness of his party, both in men and ideas, through corrupting the press").