Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-02-20
KING or MONTENEGRO IS
DISAPPOINTED IN WILSON
Says President Failed to Keep
Word as Peace Negotiator Given
to Montcncgrin People.
MONARCH Is 80 YEARS OLD
Was Great Friend Of King Edward
VII, and Was Frequent Visitor
at Buckingham Palace During
Queen Fictoria's Reign.
service.


=. ,d,ANTlHEs. FRANCE. Feb. 49,
who has rciIncd longer than any
to sses m. 3ue Ss has
via Les Liserons that President
wilson failed 10 keep his word as u
peace negotiator given 10 the Monte
There liz tragedy back Of this
imply Nicholas of Montenegro is ~
throne sixty years ago. when mis- un-
c!e' l'rihc" lbanilo. died in 1859. Dur
.mE ines. SiAty years he has been
ho!eh not only as popular King.
mats Of Europe
ne VIZ great frieE nd Of King Ed
ward vi. ana was u frequent visitor
at buckingham Palace during Queen
mtc1oria reign. lic was host to
Ih"ouorc Roosevelt on the longer OF
I'M. me. ia,ters tours OF Europe. and has
written book devoted to an eulugv
81 lnc Americans as The People OF
Italy VI
Until the great war. ana ain throuen
the balkan, conflict. Nicholas reisned
nnd!sturbed. IL" lived with great
simplicity and his son, Pierre, was
,anSnt mechanical engineering as u
OF lie least Impressive PALACES in ;he
woiiu ana during his residence there
an: subject was free to walk tn tha
Kings Office, demand audience and
Drese MT his grievances. 81"
rs ! saw him Just now. Nichola.
,oohcu tirCd and worn. He confess,.I
mat he had been WORKING to" Mr.,
.v,n writing Memoirs.
=, hiie 1 aiu awaiting my call back
90 M9nteneEro." hc said. II am en-
saEed in writing my memoirs .rhny
VII cover more than half a century
OF european politics :
IA lElur
us we REPORT from BELGRADE thar
~ ha' accepted $4,000 Francs ve,r
IN a Is h a , tension with the agreemcnt
negro. 10 monte
similar PROPOSITIONS were mad.
MY crown is TIE property Of ~.
40 itenc-rsn people: / have no r;.hi
10 l;sposs, of II io iishl
rr, GiSr ths, 53s, it Is only a, Bel
hihs selling to a foreign nnt;or III u
honor and the liberty OF his c .m tne
blttle for " ",,r nnai!ty tha, shall
breath" Win my last
This was said quite sinnlv .,,
'"@TS were no hcroics "'''
recognized the Incorporation OF Mon
timrI ro az = part Of the -slavian
.or me King rose and paced back and
. ,SSr,n in his little library. spealin. in
snort pr. jerky sentences ;"
said ~" -. question OF Montenegro" he
not yet decided. |, should hay" ha.n
Het .c 10y the peace conferences
a., peace confernc did not rcov
49," "a" Led annexation OF Monte
negro. hut Serbia. thanks 10 her nnv,-
.riul protectors, Succeeded In an,,n
ihS my country without any or ~ /.
powers protesting Tue
grinna rose pscemner; lsis, the Montene-
pation forces and Mr. Wilson. who
was then in Paris, sent his s,cr,,,r,.
10 mir with the text OF a telegram h =
"eS eco me TO send my people"
The Original Mcssnre
me NinE searched a drawer in his
uesk ana drew forth n paper. "Inrc
Mr. IS ,y ne said; the original message
trus,in tsoh urew up AMI which l.
The message read: Ito my da,-
puopic. beg you TO, remain tran
uuii ana not 10 oppose the govern
10 occupy our country. have re-
cstVed the highest assurances from
.mc representatives of allied coun-
h,. n mat yer! soon an occasion will
-" ,i i 10 me Mont"nes-in people
WHEN ihey viii be able to frcciy pro-
nohnce on the political form of tb.ir
future government"
IN July. 1914" continued the King
ro,I w !iS"h teleSranhcd me as
ioiiows; II trust Your Majesty and
the noble and heroic people of Monte
negro viii not be cast down. bu, vii,
nave confidence in the DISCRIMINATION
OF the United states to see tina, i'm
inc mai victory. that will come. The
integrity and rights Of Montenegro
snail be secured and recogniZed''
Despite thcse/assurances of Presl-
uent wilson the United States dele
| gates at the conference turned their
backs on Montenegro and to this
cate have done NOTHING. to redeem the
presidents promise 10 secure for us
me rlHht oi self determination ac-
corded other nations some OF which
fought as enemies during The ,ynr.r