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Premier Pashitch showed once again his formidable "iron fist." By order of the Government, the three YugoSlavian Universities were nationalized. Trouble started when several Croat professors at the Croatian University at Zagreb (Agram) were pensioned off. Students went on strike. A few days later, students of the Ljubliana (Liabach) University struck. In the capital, at Belgrade University, a strike was also declared. A gun fight ensued between the students and the gendarmes-10 of the former, five of the latter were wounded. In the western limits of the Kingdom, a mighty shout went up from Croat and Slovene throats...
...Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, presided and affixed his signature for Great Britain. The order of signing was alphabetical: Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain (here the five British Dominions signed: Australia, Canada, Irish Free State, New Zealand, Union of South Africa; also the Indian Empire), Italy, Japan, Serb-Croat-Slovene State (Yugo-Slavia). It was announced that the Experts' Plan was in effect as from Sept...
Before the war, Montenegro was free. Its boundaries were defined: north by Austro-Hungary, south by Albania, east by Serbia, west by the Adriatic. After the war was started to join Montenegro to the newly formed Serb, Croat and Slovene State (Yugo-Slavia). The "Big Four" (Lloyd George, Clemenceau, Orlando, Wilson) decided that a plebiscite should be held. Meanwhile, YugoSlavian troops occupied the territory; the Montenegrin population for the most part fled to the hills. When the plebiscite resulted in a favorable vote for adhesion to Yugo-Slavia, it was held that this result was not the will...
...death of King Nicholas, March 1, 1921, Montenegro became definitely incorporated into the Serb, Croat and Slovene Kingdom-more briefly Yugo-Slavia...
President Hibben of Princeton has had conferred upon him recently the order of Saint Sava of the second class (Grand Officer), "in recognition of the valuable services rendered by him to the Serb-Croat-Slovine Nation," by His Royal Highness Prince Regent Alexander. The insignia of the order was bestowed upon him by S. G. Grouitch, the minister to the United States from that kingdom...