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been written for 1915, except in Lloyd . Georges. department of the battle be- ! hind the battle lines, and it was agreed ! that party politics of the old type must be adjourned until the war should ! be won, Premier Asquith was felt not fully to embody the British peoples | iron resolution that nothing but the peace of compelte victory could be even thought of and Lloyd George be- l came prime minister and first lord of the treasury, and as such led the Brit ish empire to the winning of the war.
 "The Destroyer of Ministries"
 The man who is primarily a pub lcist and man of letters yet becomes the responsible head of government is not a familiar figure in the English speaking world. Yet that has been the vocation of Georges Clemenceau, prime minister Of France for the second time in his seYenty-seventh year, but best known in his own country as the de- stroyer of ministries
 An Outspoken Patriot
 When the war began he entered the EiViani ministry, but did not remain long His patriotism has never been doubted, but even in the midst of war he never hesitated to criticize and at tack where he believed censure neces- sary. When his paper was suppressed he changed the name from Le Homme ! Libre (the Free Man), to LHomme En- 1 chaine (the Chained Man) and ham mered on He was most virulent in l his censures of the management of the 1 allied offensive of 1916. and his And ] the Prussians are Still in Noyon," rasped the nerves of the ministry as ] ipn Inf ftvr r 1 Must Be Destroyed" did those of the 1 Roman senate.
 1 When the exposure of Bolo Pasha's 1 intriGues and the apparent complicity ] on them of certain of it's members overthrow the Painleve cabinet it was | generally felt that Clemenceau, ''the Tiger" was Frances strongest man, and his return to the premiership was 1 not opposed even by the radical social | ists. That was on November Is, 1917.
 How swiftly he dealt with the de 1 featist' intriguers, sending Bolo Pasha
 before a firing squad and various ac- ! complices to prison, including the for mer premier, Joseph Caillaux, is recent
 history. His relentless energy and 1 tireless activity are standing refuta- tions of certain theories attributed to 1 Dr. Osler, for in September last Georges Clemenceau celebrated his | seventy seventh birthday
 The Italian Premier
 Victor Emmanuel Orlando Italian 1 premier at the wars end, was prac- tically unheard of outisde his own l country until, as minister of the in l terior, he refused the Italian socialists 1 passports to the Stockholm conference,
 which he correctly characterized as "a
 maneuver of the central powers" He
 is, however, q legal educator and writer
 of distinction. and was professor of law at Modena in his twenty fifth year
 and later held the same chair in the | university of his native Palermo for ten years. He is the author of the
 standard Italian work on principles ol
 constitutional law.
 II Elected to the chamber of deputies in his thirty seventh year. 1897, he
 was appointed minister of education in
 the Giolitti cabinet of 1903, minister of
 justice in that of 1909, and again in
 the Salandra cabinet of 1914, and in
 the BoseIli coalition ministry of 1916
 became minister of the interior.
 When the disaster of Caporetto few
 months later made a change impera- tive, all Italy hailed Orlandos call to
 
 and strong man. As the successful pilot
 of his country through her darkest hours since her unity was achieved and
 to complete victory his place in world as well as Italian history is secure. The Redeemer of Greece To Eleutherios Venizelos, Cretar lawyer and revolutionist. belongs the double distinction of reuniting his na- tive island to Greece and of redeeminl
 all Greece from the stain put upon il by it's Germanized king in treating iti solemn treaty engagements as a mere scrap of paper" Take Jonescu, som, time premier of Roumania, has left i on formal record that VeniZelos' con dTct has always justified his Christian name, which may be fairly translated protector of freedom
 VeniZelos saw from the beginning what were the real issues of the world war, and sought to align Greece witt France and England, to which Greece owed her very existence. But as Ser. ] bia had at first beaten off the Aus trians, the Germanized King Constan tine, whose wife was William Hohen, Zollerns sister, was able to resist ant keep Greece in a craven neutrality When Bulgaria joined the Huns neu trality was no longer possible witt honor for Greece had solemnly engaged to aid Serbia if attacked by Bulgaria German corruption, acting through th' traitorous king, drove Venizelos iron office in 1915,-but not before he has sanctioned the landing of the allies a Saloniki
 Against the king and his corruption of the army, to the point where ! whole Greek division was surrendered to the Germans, Venizelos appealed |. the people. and risked the penalties O I open rebellion. With the enforced ab dication of Constantine in June, 1917 he returned to power, and promptly pu l Greece on the side of her real friends and the forces of civilization. Tn z Greek army had been demoralized ana the funds that should have equipped i used for political corruption. Thank to the energy of Venizelos and the ali, { given by the allies it was reconstructet s rapidly and 100000 Greeks joined Gen eral d'Esperey in time for the campaign s of 1918 that put Bulgaria out of tn war, drove the Huns across the Danub k and freed Serbia.
 The President Of Czecho- SIovakia Born in 1850, Thomas Masaryk ha worked with both head and hands Ap prenticed to the blacksmitfl's trade E he learned it, and left it to win highe education and become 8 teacher. Pro 3 lessor of philosophy at Vienna at 2S he left the certainty of learned ease t < join in the establishment of the ney Bohemian" or -Germanized, Uni 2 versity of Prague Elected to tn Austrian parliament in 1891. he re