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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...