were represented. All of these
parties had in their programmes the motto 'The people and State union,'
with, of course, different points of view and different opinions as to
the organization of our national and State forces, except the
Communists, who go further and desire the union of all peoples."

WHICH ONE GENTLEMAN REFUSES TO TAKE

It will thus be seen that the friends of Nikita were altogether wrong in
suggesting that those who voted for the Republicans or Communists were
opposed to the union with Serbia in Yugoslavia. Both Republicans and
(paradoxical though it sounds) the Communists resented this insinuation
very bitterly; and considering that the leaders of both parties are
pronounced antagonists of the old regime, and were indeed severally
condemned to death by Nikita, it would have been strange if they now
supported him. Thus every single programme put forward by the different
parties included, in some form or other, union with Serbia. The
candidates themselves explicitly said so; but Mr. M'Neill knows better,
and informs us how very hostile to the Serbs they really were. He is a
wonderful man, Mr. M'Neill. Standing up in the House of Commons he
directs his penetrating gaze upon the Black Mountain, and with such
effect that he can see in the minds of Montenegrin politicians what they
themselves had never dreamed of. Since we have such a man as Mr. M'Neill
in the country, one would think that the Foreign Office might have saved
itself the expense of sending out Mr. Bryce and Major Ottley.

But since we have it, let us look at Mr. Bryce's very interesting and
detailed report. After explaining that both Republicans and Communists
were in favour of union with Serbia, he tells us how it happened that so
many people voted for these two lists instead of for the orthodox
Radical and Democratic parties. The Communists, according to Mr. Bryce,
were benefited by a party organization, a vigorous canvass and a better
discipline than that of any of their opponents. Their policy won the
support of many ardent and very patriotic Nationalists, who voted in
many cases for Communism on the ground that it was the Russian
policy--out of gratitude for what the Tzars had done for Montenegro in
the past! Major Temperley, assistant military attache, in another report
(Command Paper I., 123) observes that some local discontent had arisen
in Montenegro because the native does not understand, and has never
experienced before, a real