[Footnote 80: Cf. "Le Progres politique et economique sous le
Regne de Pierre I.," by A. Mousset, in _Yugoslavia_, December
15, 1921.]
[Footnote 81: In all, 7130 boys and girls were removed from
Bosnia-Herzegovina. And a year or two after the end of the
war a good many of them were still with their foster-parents
in other parts of Yugoslavia. They preferred to remain there,
because of the lack of food in their own homes; the parents
of many--especially in Herzegovina--had been hanged, and
others had been for so long away from their parents that they
had no keen desire to return to them.]
[Footnote 82: Quoted in the _Times_ of September 24, 1919.]
[Footnote 83: Cf. _Serbia's Part in the War_, vol. i., by
Crawfurd Price. London, 1918.]
[Footnote 84: He intervened, for example, near Lazarevac,
where he observed, with tears in his eyes, that one of the
finest regiments, the 10th [vS]umadija, was giving way to
overwhelming numbers. He told them that he intended to stay
where he was, and he invited any soldier who wished to remain
with him to do so. Every man remained. "Tres charmant," was
the comment of the colonel, an eye-witness, who told me of
this incident.]
[Footnote 85: Cf. _Manchester Guardian_, October 22, 1921.]
[Footnote 86: Cf. _Nineteenth Century and After_, January
1922.]
[Footnote 87: Cf. _Dokumenti o postanku Kraljevine Srba,
Hrvata i Slovenaca, 1914-1919_, by Ferdo [vS]i[vs]i['c].
Zagreb, 1920.]
[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.]
[Footnote 99: Cf. an article in the _Gazette de Lausanne_,
November 29, 1917, by Danilo Gatalo, a former Montenegrin
Minister of War.]
[Footnote 100: Cf. p. 204.]
[Footnote 101: _Ex-King Nicholas and his Court_ (Collection
of eighteen original documents in facsimile). Sarajevo,
1919.]
[Footnote 102: These almost incredible facts are vouched for
by Dr. Sekula Drljevi['c], ex-Minister of Justice and
Finance, who was one of the internees at Karlstein.]
[Footnote 103: _The Black Sheep of the Balkans._ London,
1920.]
[Footnote 104: In 1919 this very popular physician became
Minister of Public Health in a Coalition Cabinet, and in 1920
he became Minister of Posts and Telegraphs.]
[Footnote 105: A couple of months before the triumph of the
Yugoslav idea one of these priests, Dr. Alexius
U[vs]eni[vc]nik, Professor of Theology, published at
Ljubljana a little book packed with ancient and modern
quotations from Latin and French, Italian and German sources.
He called it _Um die Yugoslavija; Eine Apologie_; and in the
strongest terms he combated the reproach that the Slovene
bishop, the clergy and the people were not loyal to the
Habsburgs. Dr. U[vs]eni[vc]nik proved that the poor Slovenes
were suffering an almost intolerable subjection at the hands
of the Germans, but he persisted in demanding nothing more
than freedom within the Habsburg Monarchy. "The Monarchy,"
said our unhappy author, "is in the midst of its
development." And this priest, who was so deaf to the grand
Yugoslav idea, quoted with approval the words of Gustave le
Bon: "Ideas take a long time in possessing the people's
soul."]