state. Exile, death and legacy Dučić went into exile in the United States in 1941 following the German invasion and occupation of Yugoslavia, where he joined his relative Mihajlo (Michael) in Gary, Indiana. From then until his death two years later, he led a Chicago-based organization, the Serbian National Defense Council (founded by Mihailo Pupin in 1914) which represented the Serbian diaspora in the US. During these two years, he wrote many poems, historical books and newspaper articles espousing Serbian nationalist causes and protesting the mass murder of Serbs by the pro-Nazi Ustaše regime of Croatia. In Yugoslav school anthologies immediately after WWII he had been declared persona non grata and widely viewed as a Serbian chauvinist. He died on 7 April 1943. His funeral took place at the Saint Sava Serbian Orthodox Church in Gary, Indiana and he was buried in the Saint Sava Serbian Orthodox Monastery cemetery in Libertyville, Illinois. He expressed a wish in his will to be buried in his home town of Trebinje, a goal which was finally realized when he was reburied there on 22 October 2000 in the newly built Hercegovačka Gračanica monastery. His Acta Diplomatica (Diplomatic Letters) was published posthumously in the United States (in 1952) and in the former-Yugoslavia (in 1991). The Jovan Dučić Award is awarded for achievements in poetry and it is awarded every year during the manifestation "Dučić's Night" in Trebinje. He was elected a member of Parnassos Literary Society. Orders and decorations Member of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts Order of St. Sava, I class, Kingdom of Yugoslavia Order of the Yugoslav Crown, I rank, Kingdom of Yugoslavia Order of the Redeemer, II rank, Greece Order of the Nile, the great officer rank, Egypt Order of the Crown of Italy, the broad sash rank, Kingdom of Italy Order of the Star of Romania, I rank, Kingdom of Romania Order of the White Lion, the commander cross rank, Czechoslovakia Order of Merit of the Kingdom of Hungary, the grand cross rank, Kingdom of Hungary Works Pjesme, knjiga prva, izdanje uredništva Zore u Mostaru, 1901. Pesme, Serbian Literary Guild, Kolo XVII, knj. 113. Beograd, 1908. Pesme u prozi, Plave legende, pisano u Ženevi 1905. Beograd, 1908. Pesme (štampa "Davidović"), Beograd, 1908. Pesme, izdanje S. B. Cvijanovića, Beograd, 1911. Sabrana dela (I-V), Biblioteka savremenih jugoslovenskih pisaca, Beograd, Narodna prosveta * Knj. I Pesme sunca (1929) * Knj. II Pesme