s of Rieka, and that
persons living outside the line of Armistice found it cheaper
to do their shopping in the besieged city.]

[Footnote 50: February 20, 1920.]

[Footnote 51: September 1921.]

[Footnote 52: However, in the Yugoslav Parliament, although
some of the deputies have spent their lives in far-off,
primitive places--by no means all of those who represent the
Albanians can read and write--one does not hear such deplorable
language as that which, according to the _Grazer Volksblatt_ of
January 19, 1922, disgraced the Austrian Assembly. A certain
Dr. Waneck, of the Pan-German party, wished to criticize the
Minister of Finance, Professor Dr. Guertler of the Christian
Socialists. He remarked that one could not expect this Minister
to be sober at four o'clock in the afternoon, and went on to
say that no less than five banks, whose names he would give,
had received early information from the Minister, which enabled
them to speculate successfully. He repeated this accusation
several times and with great violence, but when he was invited
to reveal the names of these banks--"No, sir!" he cried. "I
will not do so, because I don't want to."]

[Footnote 53: Cf. "The Tri-Une Kingdom," by Pavle Popovi['c]
and Jovan M. Jovanovi['c], in the _Quarterly Review_, October
1921.]

[Footnote 54: He was kept for some time in confinement at
Mitrovica, in Syrmia, and in November 1920 he was liberated in
consequence of the great amnesty.]

[Footnote 55: Cf. _Spectator_, July 17, 1920.]

[Footnote 56: Cf. _Edinburgh Review_, July 1920.]

[Footnote 57: A few months after this, in the course of a
little controversy in the _Saturday Review_ (which arose from
an unsigned and, I hoped, rather reasonable article of mine on
the Adriatic Settlement) I quoted from memory this passage of
Mrs. Re-Bartlett's and said that the Italian captain was giving
chocolates to the children at Kievo. Thereupon Mr. Harold W. E.
Goad of the British-Italian League wrote a highly indignant
letter to the editor, and in the course of it he denounced me
for having egregiously invented the chocolates "for the sole
purpose of throwing her testimony into ridicule.... What do
you, Sir, think of such methods as that?" And he concluded by
declaring that I wallowed in a "truly Balkan slough of
distort