To Washington

Jovan S. Plamenatz, Premier of a non-existent government of a non-existent country--i. e., Montenegro-- expected to leave Manhattan, his temporary headquarters, and march on Washington to urge the Government of the U. S. to assist Montenegro to regain her independence.

The "Premier" spoke of the 16-year-old Michael I, "King of Montenegro," at present being educated in England; of the 50,000 Serbian troops that are oppressing 2,000,000 Montenegrins; and of the powerful sentiment abroad that Montenegro did not get a square deal at the Peace Conference of 1919.

"Montenegro," said M, Plamenatz, "after Belgium and Serbia, felt the heaviest blow in the World War. She lost on the battlefield 46% of her entire army in deaths and one-third of her population perished from hunger and disease. It does not seem that after all her suffering she should now be made a conquered nation."

Among the Americans who support the cause of Montenegro are Whitney Warren, who has written a book, Montenegro, the Crime of the Peace Conference, and Representative Hamilton Fish, Jr. (TIME, June 4).

'Montenegro was incorporated into the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (YugoSlavia) on March 1, 1921, after a plebiscite of the people had declared for union with the Yugo-Slavs (Southern Slavs). It is held by the champions of Montenegrin autonomy that the plebiscite was illegal and unfairly conducted. Available evidence support-- the autonomist--.