920.]

[Footnote 88: Cf. _International Law_, Part I. p. 321.]

[Footnote 89: _Italy and the Yugoslavs: A Question of
International Law._ Paris, 1919.]

[Footnote 90: July 17, 1920.]

[Footnote 91: I think that, in so far as concerns this
article in the _New Europe_ (July 8, 1920), it is fairer to
describe Mr. Trevelyan as an Italian exponent rather than
apologist. Although we cannot agree with various remarks of
his, he makes it clear that he is out of sympathy with the
Italian extremists. He deprecates also the views of those
English publicists who are altogether on the side of the
Yugoslavs. "The truth, perhaps," says he, "lies somewhere hid
in the centre." And if that is not a very happy observation,
it is at any rate much more moderate than the average views
of those English writers whose spiritual home is in Italy.]

[Footnote 92: Byron, _Childe Harold_.]

[Footnote 93: About 36,000 boys--partly recruits and partly
boys of more tender years--started over the mountains, and
some 20,000 of them perished.]

[Footnote 94: This officer, aided by others, was charged with
having organized an attempt to overthrow the Yugoslav
National Council soon after its constitution in the autumn of
1918. The day of the counter-revolution was to be November
25, according to the _Hrvatska Rije[vc]_ of November 23. The
General and others were arrested, but as he was able to prove
his innocence he was liberated.]

[Footnote 95: _With Serbia into Exile._ New York, 1916.]

[Footnote 96: Cf. _The Question_, by Isidora Sekuli['c].]

[Footnote 97: _Revue des Deux Mondes_, January 1, 1917.]

[Footnote 98: In contrast with this attitude that was adopted
at Nikita's command one must mention the transactions of a
Podgorica merchant, M. Buri[vc], and his partners, who sold
150,000 kilos of grain to the retreating army at cost price,
that is, at one dinar per kilo when they could have obtained
five. Two million kilos of hay they sold at 8 paras per kilo
instead of at 50 or more. There were at this time only 20
tons of flour in all Montenegro. Undoubtedly the refusal of
Buri[vc] and his friends to profit from the distress of their
brother Serbs was much more typical of the Montenegrins than
the conduct which Nikita drew forth from the weak side of
their character.]

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