Word: montenegro
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...toyed last week with the supposedly defunct Montenegrin question, permitted Fascist editors to slap into bold type a manifesto blazoned at Rome by the Royalist Montenegrin Committee for National Defense. The Committee, a dwindling palace clique, called upon Montenegrins to rise against Jugoslavia* and restore King (Pretender) Michael of Montenegro. The Jugoslav press, just now hypersensitive to Italian war scares, grew promptly flurried lest Il Duce follow up his Albanian treaty thrust into the Balkans (TIME, Dec. 13) by trying to restore the independence and throne of Montenegro...
Mountain Queen. Earnest, healthy, invincibly domestic, Queen Elena of Italy must have followed the Montenegrin developments of last week with an eager heart. She is the daughter of the late King Nicholas of Montenegro; the aunt of the present Montenegrin pretender, Michael; and, should Michael renounce his rights, her son, Crown Prince Umberto of Italy, might succeed to the suppositious Montenegrin throne...
Bitter, perhaps, to Queen Elena is the thought that if her kin ever reign again, in Montenegro, it will be through the doing of a one-time hod-carrier, Benito Mussolini, and not due to any potency of her consort, King Vittorio Emanuele of Italy. Still less has Queen Elena herself been able to exert any real pressure on events in the kingdom of her father. In a word, she is respected but not admired, adored or heeded by Italians. She came, serious-minded, from her dark Balkan mountains, and the grandeur that was or is Rome has not quickened...
...churches, inscrutable dishes of fruit, chaotic spasms of pigment labeled "Mood," "Flight" and other rapt generalizations. . . . There was a sturdy young Russian landscapist who has been studying of late years at the Philadelphia Academy, Captain Vladimir Perfiliev, erstwhile of the Don Cossacks. He had painted the grim mountains of Montenegro and the bright Balkans beyond, and if you went with him to his studio he had some very clever portrait work to show you, both in color and in black-and-white. He would tell you, with a quaint mixture of genuine Slavic dignity and bursting childish delight...
...Croatia, Montenegro, Bosnia, Herzegovina...