 Throughout the scandal, "Seara" hosted articles by Arghezi, professing Bogdan-Pitești's innocence.In 1916, just before Romania entered the war as an Entente country, Alexandru Bogdan-Pitești was again involved in a legal dispute with the Francophiles Take Ionescu and Barbu Ștefănescu-Delavrancea, with Constantin Dissescu as his lawyer.The Ententist bid resulted in major initial defeats, and a Romanian theater of war was opened.