n, as Nikita's
Prime Minister, was the central figure of a reception given by
Lord Sydenham at the Savoy. But out of fairness to his lordship
I must add that in an hour's conversation he impressed me with
the fact that he was even less acquainted with Plamenac's
antecedents than he was with other Montenegrin affairs, which
he raised on more than one occasion in the House of Lords,
endeavouring there--until Lord Curzon overwhelmed him--to play
the part that was assumed by Mr. M'Neill in the Commons.]

[Footnote 27: We shall see that the subsequent history of this
officer was less laudable.]

[Footnote 28: Cf. _Nineteenth Century and After_, January
1921.]

[Footnote 29: This very able priest became Vice-President of
the Council of Ministers when the first Yugoslav Cabinet was
formed. When Cardinal Bourne visited Belgrade in the spring of
1919 a Mass was celebrated by the Yugoslav Cabinet Minister,
the British Cardinal and a French priest who was an aviation
captain in the army. Monsignor Koro[vs]ec's position reminds
one that in the early days of Bulgaria's freedom her Premier
was the Archbishop of Trnovo.]

[Footnote 30: Cf. p. 60, Vol. II.]

[Footnote 31: Cf. _The New Europe_, March 27, 1919.]

[Footnote 32: There are in the Banat some ultra-patriotic
Magyars, such as the man at Antanfalva (Kova[vc]i[vc]a) who,
having lost something between his house and the post office,
insisted on advertising for it in the Buda-Pest papers. But the
Yugoslav rule was so satisfactory that, two or three years
after the Armistice, I found in the large Hungarian village of
Debelyacsa--where the _intelligentsia_ called the sympathetic
Serbian notary by his Christian name--not one of the
inhabitants proposed to remove to Hungary. No doubt the
goodness of the soil had something to do with this decision,
but, more, the liberal methods of the Serbs. No military
service was as yet exacted--all that the Magyars had been asked
to do was to work for two months in obliterating the ravages of
war. The priest and the schoolmaster who had come from Hungary
before the War still exercised their functions, and--in
contrast with what had previously been the case--both the
Magyar and the Serbian language were taught, the latter from
the third class upwards. Altogether there was perfect harm