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Signer Mussolini toyed last week with the supposedly defunct Montenegrin question, permitted Fascist editors to slap into bold type a manifesto blazoned at Rome by the Royalist Montenegrin Committee for National Defense. The Committee, a dwindling palace clique, called upon Montenegrins to rise against Jugoslavia* and restore King (Pretender) Michael of Montenegro. The Jugoslav press, just now hypersensitive to Italian war scares, grew promptly flurried lest Il Duce follow up his Albanian treaty thrust into the Balkans (TIME, Dec. 13) by trying to restore the independence and throne of Montenegro...
Mountain Queen. Earnest, healthy, invincibly domestic, Queen Elena of Italy must have followed the Montenegrin developments of last week with an eager heart. She is the daughter of the late King Nicholas of Montenegro; the aunt of the present Montenegrin pretender, Michael; and, should Michael renounce his rights, her son, Crown Prince Umberto of Italy, might succeed to the suppositious Montenegrin throne...
They set forth in a carriage, smartly drawn by six white horses. At a village, the seat of King Alexander's predecessors, an old nurse gave him a blessing. Queen Marie, diplomatically attired in a Montenegrin national costume, sparkled with good humor beside her husband and evinced no sign of mistrusting the people...
...they accept their new ruler, or would a shot, a knife, a bomb express the hatred of unwilling subjects for their lord? It was a ticklish moment. Steel-nerved, the smiling royalties awaited what was to come. Then suddenly their people knelt and poured forth the ancient greeting of Montenegrin subjects to a Montenegrin King: "Lo, thou art our heavenly sun, our wish, our happiness and our sharp sword...
...After the War a plebiscite was held among Montenegrins, and as a result they were joined in 1921 to Yugo-Slavia (i.e. "South Slavia", officially "The Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes"). Montenegrin Nationalists have opposed this action, declaring the plebiscite "illegal and unfairly conducted...