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...action was recently brought against the Yugo-Slavian Government by Princess Elizabeth, daughter of the late Crown Prince Rudolph of Austria and wife of Prince Otto Windischgratz, over the island of Lacroma, near Ragusa on the Dalmatian coast...
...Princess received the island as a marriage dowry; Yugo-Slavia claimed it under the treaty of Saint Germain. Princess Elizabeth stated that she was no longer a Habsburg, having renounced her rights on the occasion of her marriage; therefore Yugo-Slavia had no right to sequester the property. The case was settled by a payment of $575,000 to the Princess...
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...
...argument advanced by those who favor Montenegrin union with Yugo-Slavia runs to the effect that " King Nicholas had more than one string to his bow during the war"; it is felt that he did not wholeheartedly espouse the cause of the Allies. Whether or not that question affects the status of Montenegro or Montenegrin liberty today, it is always brought up in that connection...
...important to remember that the present King of Yugo-Slavia, Alexander I, is a grandson of King Nicholas...