To all of those named above, and to many others who are not named, I am deeply grateful.
V WILL THE SICK MAN OF EUROPE RECOVER? 176
VI WHAT THE PEACE-MAKERS HAVE DONE ON THE DANUBE 206
The Queen of Rumania tells Major Powell that she enjoys being a Queen _Frontispiece_
His first sight of the Terra Irridenta 12
This is not Venice, as you might suppose, but Trieste 46
The inhabitants of Fiume cheering d'Annunzio and his raiders 78
His Majesty Nicholas I, King of Montenegro 124
The head men of Ljaskoviki, Albania, waiting to bid Major and Mrs. Powell farewell 142
Yildiz Kiosk, the favorite palace of Abdul-Hamid and his successors on the throne of Osman 194
The Red Badge of Mercy in the Balkans 208
The gypsy who demanded five lei for the privilege of taking her picture 234
King Ferdinand tells Mrs. Powell his opinion of the fashion in which the Peace Conference treated Rumania 240
The wine-shop which is pointed out to visitors as "the Cradle of the War" 252
It is unwise, generally speaking, to write about countries and peoples when they are in a state of political flux, for what is true at the moment of writing may be misleading the next. But the conditions which prevailed in the lands beyond the Adriatic during the year succeeding the signing of the Armistice were so extraordinary, so picturesque, so wholly without parallel in European history, that they form a sort of epilogue, as it were, to the story of the great conflict. To have witnessed the dismemberment of an empire which was hoary with antiquity when the Republic in which we live was yet unborn; to have seen insignificant states expand almost overnight into powerful nations; to have seen and talked with peoples who did not know from day to day the form of government under which they were living, or the name of their ruler, or the color of their flag; to have seen millions of human beings transferred from sovereignty to sovereignty like cattle which have been sold--these are sights the like of which will probably not be seen again in our times or in those of our children, and, because they serve to illustrate a chapter of History which is of immense importance, I have tried to sketch them, in brief, sharp outline, in this book.