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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-19
In the Hour
OF Triumph

Who forget the bitter weeks when
day after day Clemenceau appeared IN the
Chamber still covered with the mud and
dust Of Flanders, of Picardy, Of the lie d.
France, bringing news of defeats only mar
rowly prevented from becoming disasters?
Who Will forget it. who knows. the other
appearances of this man of seventy seven on
the battle lines, under the heaviest fire, in
viting death, men said then? He brodght
to the army the immediate personal assur-
ance of the support OF the civil govern
ment he brought to the civil population, to
the legislators, the unconquerable spirit Of
the army.
There was day when all changed and
the Senate and the Chamber alike greeted
with applause which had no dissent the
leader returning from rescued Lille. bring
ing the assurance that Metz and Sras-
bourg would soon be redeemed One moro
triumph was his Men had debated about
the fashion in which Alsace Lorraine would
be restored to France Clemenceau settled
all that by having written in the armisticc
the provision that Alsace and Lorraine
should be reckoned with all other occupied
districts, with those of 1914 and 1915.
Thus he made good his ancient protest.
for he was the last survivor of the Deputies
who in 1871 had protested against the ces
sion of the provinces, denied the right OF
the Legislature to make such a surrender
proclaimed it illegal and unjustihablc In
the language of the armistce. he made good
his protest of 1s71-the provinces were re-
turned as French soil.
Rarely in human history has it been given
to any man to represent his country at a
supreme hour in its history and so to rep
resent it that his own personality and figure
became the expression of nation which
itself was the object of world admiration
Such was and is the achievement Of George
Clemenceau.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-19
e Other Back Stairs Peace and What Came of Il

1898 to the meeting of the Congress of
Vienna, IN 1914 During this period it
was under the direction successfully of
Count Pergen, Baron Sumeraw and, after
1907 Of Baron Hager. It's period of high
est development was while Hager was the
head and the peak of its activity was in
l0l4-1o. during the Congress of Vienna
So intense was Hager's application during
the period of the congress that it brought
the final breakdown of his health, and he
died in July, 1916.
The uses Of secret police in construct
ing and preserving a balance Of power are
shown in report Of Pergen and two re
ports by Sumcraw to the Emperor Perren
said: cone pictures confidential agents,
who are placed in the embassies where it
is known or believed plans arc being made
or there are intentions held which are
hostile to the monarchy, to discover their
secret relations with other embassies or
with those who are in the service of Your
Majesty"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-19

prefecture of Annccy, the rights to which
vested in him until new order is
made
SO. The millions spent u the port OF Ant.
werp will not be returned to the King. bui
he will be overwhelmed with blessings. and
in consideration of this sacrifice the King
OF Sardinia will not demand any war in.
demnity
a. The King of Sardinia shall keep Tor
ever his titles Of King of Cyprus and Jcru-
salem and he can, if necessary, JOIN to them
Marquis of the Ottoman Empire.
"8. The Pope shall recover his property i'm
Rome. His civil powers are abolished and
he will order all his subjects born since
1902 to make declaration before tae
ecclesiastical authority
"9. England will return to France all hcr
colonies except Tobago, Ste. Luce. the
Sechelles, the Isle of France, etc, etc A.
for the others, France can fight for them
40. England will give Norway to Sweden
and Sweden viii cede Guadeoupe to France
His Britannia Majesty viii abandon all his
legitimate rights on Norway and Guade-
loupe.
III. England viii consent to keep Ant
Of maintaining on the Continent an army
at the expense of Holland
"12. The French Royal Navy shall consist
of thirteen ships Of the line, eight frigates.
three corvettes and five sloops. Of which
half only shall be armed. The King will be
free TO enroll as many naval officers as he
wants to.
"13. Her Majesty the Empress and Quccn
Marie Louise shall be elevated to the dig
nifty Of Duchess Of Parma and Plaisance br
the generosity Of her august father, France.
Emperor Of Austria
IA. In consequence OF his frank, LOYAL and
noble conduct, Prince Eugene Napoleon
viii cease to be Viceroy Of italy and the
throne of Naples VIII continue 70 be oc
cupied by King Joachim Napoleon. ore o.
the sovereigns most faithful 70 Bonapar.s.
the Pope France and the Allied Powers.
"15. England will consent that French
navigation shall be free on the Marine the
Saone, the Dordogne, the lserc and part OF
the Gironde. Manufactures and commerce
WI! begin again French merchants will be
free 10 sell only English goods.
"16. Allied troops VIII leave France as soon
as possible. being careful not ia pass
through territory they have once crossed
under penalty of dying from hunger.
Il Former treaties, also She millions
spent on the Notifications of pAnsig. Frank
fort Mayence Cassel. Mons. Luxembourg
Antwerp, etc ETC. and the blood Of 5000 ooo
frenchmen poured out for the glory ard
honor of France are declared null and VOID
"l8. While waiting FOR the execution a.
'h's treaty and to prove the unity thats
exists among the European Powers. To
peum wall be chantcd in all languages
after which orders VIII be given to FORTH,
all important points and the armies viii be
At once recruited to fur strength"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-19
SeVenfy=Seven,
But Still Young

had expected to see an old man, for
Senator Clemenceau is we'll past the seventy
mark. Instead, saw a man whose first
motions suggested the energy and force of
fifty. had expected to see a stern, even
bitter face, but instead it was the smilnq
face of one who welcomed a friendly guest.
The first impression was of energy; the
second of courtesy.
When had sat down he retook his nlace
at the desk, at the gun emplacement for
the 1lgure is more than figure. From
behind that breastwork he daily bombarded
Paris, France, ministries and generals
with those articles which had overset many
ministries and were in a later time to over
set the last before he came back to power.
And as he sat down again NJ Clemenceau
placed upon his bald head one of the
familiar soldiers fatigue caps, we'll pushed
back on his forehead, and it gave him a
most amazing appearance The enemies of
Ciemenceau-and he has spent a lifetime
collecting them-will tell you that he is
Monaghan; that he represents the survival
OF some ancient Tartar invader of pre-
historic France. This is probably a mere
legend, and yet Enthusiastically, there is
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-19
The Likeness
To Roosevelt

There are men in whom you believe, once
you have seen them. | do not think men
would trust Clemenceau as they do Roose-
welt; his following will never be made up
of those who personally admire or love
him. But the thing you must feel about
the man is that he will fight it out; he
has fought it out, in French politics. for
nearly half century. His enemies have
passed; he it is who has survived And as
he was the first Premier in France to make
unhesitating answer to Germany, the first
since 1870, so he deserved and achieved
vlctory-as man who has no fear and
has never yet surrendered
Today men all over the world are read
ing with JOY of the return to France of her
"lost provinces" of French generals in Col
mar, in Mulhouse, in Metz, in bourg
To-day the glory of the achievement be-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-19
Vienna'S Human
DiCfaphOnes

When the first Treaty Of Paris was signed
on May 30, 1914, IIagcr had brought his Sc
cret police to such q state Of perfection
that it only necessary for him to give
Il few special Instructions to be rendy for
tho meeting Of tho congress-. On July he
wrote to Sibcr, the director of the Vienna
police: "The imminent arrival Of foreign
sovercgns imposes on us the obligation OF
making special dispositions, of reinforcing
our measures Of surveillance 20 that we
will be in position to know daily and in
all their details all that has to do with these
august persons, with thcir immediate en-
touragc and with all those who seek to
approach them also the plans, projects and
enterprises with which the ilustrious
guests arc concerned. | invite you, thon,
not only to give instructions to this effect
to your best agents and to the confdants
Of whom you already dispose, but to seek
our new collaborators among the merchants
and notnblcs and even among tho mobiles
and officers, who seem npt and disposed to
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-19
N Oney's Pleasing
Plea

Money is hardly less important in build
ing balance of power than secret police.
The Marquis de Brignolc, penipotentiary
of Genoa, was one of the best supplied men
in Vienna. Genoa wanted Independence and
was willing to pay for it. A report to Hager,
September q, said, Labrador Zone of the
Spanish dclegates), is opposed to the ces-
sion of Genoa to Piedmont. 1t appears that
Brigrole has brought with him two millions
with which he intends to try to win Met
ternich'
Another report the same day gave more
details. 1t said, "Brignole will receive
within few days two millions to use
principally to win Prince Metternch to the
cause of Genoa, and it seems that the bust
ness is already under way. Metternch is
acting as though he were not particularly
well disposed toward Genoa. He is said to
have told Brignole that it has been decided
to give Genoa to the King Of Sardinia.
Castlereagh has not given categorical
reply. Brgnole hopes to have better luck
with another English diplomat, Lamb, un-
less deceive myself.
Hager kept track of the Genoese millions.
October a, the agent reported, "The two
millions Brignole is to make a present of
to Mctternch have arrived"
BY the 10th he was still better sun
piled. State Councillor Goehausan wrote to
IIager. "Brignole has received his money
and has now 100000 forms, but Castle
reagh has told him the cesson of Genoa
to Piedmont Is decided"
Some Of the other credits opened IN
Vienna were noted in report to Hager
on September 20 as follows: "'phe Emperor
Of Russia 100000 rubles; the King of Prus-
STA. unlimited credit; the Prince Of Wrede
100000 forms; Cardinal Consalv unlimited
credit; Count Of Hartz (Jcrome Napoeon)
100000 forms; Baron Won Hacke, Grand
Master of the Court of Denmark, 10000
ducats and afterward unlimited credit;
Senator Won lIach, of Lubbock, unlimited
credit, and pr. Jassoy of Frankfort, un-
limited credit
Organizing a popular reception is not a
modern art. September 81, lInger by order
Of Prince Trauttmansdortr, sent the follow
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-19
Impatient
With Fools

The conversation became general and for
the next few moments he talked of many
things, with the same characteristic energy,
lmpatlonce. frankness-energy in laying
forth the dangers; impatience of the fools
and the blunders-whch filed his columns
IN that epoch, and made the arrival of each
edition OF his paper an event almost as con
siderable the communicate frankness,
for it is the terrible frankness of the man
which has created the Cemcnceau Of the
legends.
As he led me to the door at the close of
the audience | was again struck with the
energy and force of the man. In an odd
way he reminded me of Colonel Roosevelt;
smaller man, lacking in height and weight
by comparison, but yet Enthusiastically burlY
and getting over the ground with that same
vigorous forward thrust which is familiar
to all who have seen Colonel Roosevelt in
action.
AT the door he reminded me again Of
America. you will see everything, and
you will go back and tell the Americans.
They must understand. know if they
understand it will be all right As for me,
| have always liked America | knew it
once, but that was very long ago Yes. as
| told you, | am an old man"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-19

furnish you-or me-instant reports writ
ten or verbal, on all that they may be in
position to learn"
The same day he wrote to La Roze. chief
of the Jewish division Of the police: "Bv
reason Of the influence you have with the
principal Jewish houses, it should be easy
for you to find among the chiefs of these
houses, or among the most intelligent of
their sons, some individuals capable of fur
nshing interesting news to the political
police" And to one Of his trusted agents
of social position, Won Leurs, he wrote:
Il have the honor to ask you to give your
best efforts not only to making the most Of
your relations and your channels of infor-
nation, in order that you may give me
every day an ample harvest of news, being
sure that I will not fail to reimburse YOU
for any special expenses you may incur,
but to indicate to the names Of persons
you think likely to accept employment un-
der the present circumstances and for the
duration of the congress- and with whom
you can put me in touch
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-19
The Great
Con7e=B Back

But now Clemenceau has come back"
The man who SAID to me, 81 am the oppo-
sition." is to-day the government The man
who told me that the politician who talked
peace, Surrender peace, German peace"
would be Shot, "decently," has made good
his words, and in the lonely and dangerous
eminence he now occupies he has at the
least, the best wishes of all those in Britain
and in America who care most for France
and desire most to see her come unspoiled
and restored from this terrible struggle.
For the final terrible year of war Gle
menceau has been the incarnation OF the
will to live in France. In sense this old
man, the Connecticut school teacher Of the
period when the Civil War was just over
in America, was the final hope for France
Niviani, he of the words; BRAND, who once
more tired under a great task; Painleve.
the scholar, incredibly active. but inescap-
ably didactc-they all failed, and when
the enemy was again at Noyon and still
within range of Rheims. but when pess-
mists came from France bringing words of
evil, | thought always of this man, Gle
menceau, he sat behind his gun emplace-
ment, two years before, shaking the cap
he had borrowed from some poilu who
was glad, | doubt not, to lend it, and say
ing:
"Once l had doubts about France. once |
feared for my countrymen. but now, is it
not wonderful is it not unbelievable"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-19
"The Tiger" in His Lair in 1916

about the man the suggestion of the ORR
entail; something about the high cheek
bones, the deep set eyes with their cnor-
nous gray eyebrows, which suggests, not
the Oriental we know in America outside
of Washington, but the Oriental of high
rank and equally unmistakable intelligence.
Yet, cap and desk, and almost fantastic
appearance, it was stil kindly and vigor-
Gus old man, with hardly trace of the
burden Of years, who welcomed the invad-
ing American
81 knew America once; I knew it WE'LL"
he said Then with touch of mock sad
ness, but that was long ago, too long ago
For, you see, | am an old man" Then for
moment he gosspped about the New
York which he had known, the New York
Of Dana and of Greeley, whom he had
visited in the days after the end of the
civil War and during the days when he was
IN exile, an instructor of French, | believe
IN girls school. in Connecticut suburb
"But you come to talk about the war
about France he said, after moment.
"Well, | am not going to tell you what
France is doing; | am not going to praise
France. You must look around for your
self; you must see it for yourself; YOU
must feel it for yourself"
Then, after moment, he went On with
quickening tone:
There have been times in the past" and
he waved his hands toward the busy street
beyond the lattice window. "there have been
times when have despared of my country,
when have been afraid of the future for
my countrymen; but now. Now, look at
them; look at France,"
Then he repeated details of the Vcrdun
episode, of the tragic opening dav about
Douaumont, which all Paris was then re-
peating, but which shall not repeat here
1--WE need man; we need general;
we need mani" lie said with sullen in
tensity.
"And Joffre?" | asked, recalling the name
Of the man who then still commanded, but
whose sun was sinking rapidly
Il have nothing against him. he said
sharply, "nothing; but he is not the man.
he is not the man"
"And Foch o. inquired, naming nv own
hero.
But Foch did not arrest his attention.
"Nhat of Petain, them" inquired. nam
Ing the man who just coming to word
notice the defender of Verdun and was
to succeed to the rank and power of Joffre
before Clemenccau himself became Pre-
mier.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-19
Espionage on a
Social Plane

SumcraW said: zone must find and at
tach to himself persons whose social po
stion is such that they frequent High So
clety and have access to the places where
the foreign ministers and ambassadors Co.
such the salons Of the Arnstens and
Ceymuller, the Baroness d'Eichclbcrg and
the famous Nine. Ripp." In a second re-
port he emphasized this point again, say
ing; cone must devote himself cspcc tally
to finding them in the highest society and
among tho persons TO whom their BIRTH
their situation and their relations give
access everywhere, not only in the salons
Of the Arnsteins, Geymulcr, dEichelbcrg
and Nine Ripp, but also in those Of the
aristocracy and the embassies
His report then dealt with the Cabinet
Noir "where after having intercepted and
deciphercd letters coming from foreign
countries the results are sent to Coun-
cllor Of State Won Stahl" Sumcraw in
sisted the necessity for special or
Ganizaton to take charge Of the letters
foreign ministers had sent to them in caro-
Of their bankers or that they themselves
sent by confidential messengers. He ad-
viscd appealing to the patriotism OF the
bankers, to whom would be promised the
most absolute secrecy"
These the serious preliminarics to
organizing the most effective balance OF
power ever created, ono that kept it's poise
for thirty-cight years, not more than half
:he Biblical term of man The justice OF
tho remarks Of the serious commentator
in evident: zone sees that in such grave
circumstBnces the Austrian government
had need more than over to know exactly
almost hour by hour, what was done, what
was sad and whnt was written by all
those pcraopagca all those statesmen
brought together in the capitnl. IT had
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-19

the greatest interest in knowing not only
patches they received from their courts,
but still more the state of their minds,
their private conversations, their conf
dcnces and the opinions contained in their
private correspondence"
The Austrian secret service as organ
lied by Pcrgen, Sumeraw and Hager
ceased to exist in 1848, and the Crimean
War began in 1853. In the last thirty
years there have been nine wars, great
and small. No secret service, no cabinet
nolr and an unbalanced balance of power
allows nine wars in thirty years 1t is
we'll to study the Austrian method in
detail
Haler made a daily report to the En-
peror during the whole course of the Con-
gress Of Vienna. These reports were di-
vldcd into three parts and accompanied by
a detailed index The first part contained
the information gathered by the regular
secret police; the second comprised the re-
ports of volunteers recruited from people
Of social position, reaching to the highest
ranks Of the arstocracy, while the third,
often the most valuable of all, consisted of
letters and dispatches intercepted and
copied by the Cabinet Noir and the chffons
that is, parts Of letters or notes for dis
patches not thoroughly destroyed, only half
burned, through the carelcssncss of the
writers or recipients, and gathered up and
preserved by secret agents introduced as
servants. From these the experts of the
secret police would reconstitute the orig
inal letter or dispatch The survcillsnce
extended even to members Of the imperial
family, whose correspondence was inter
ccptcd and copied by the secret police, and
to letters and dispatches written under the
very orders of Mcttcrnich himself
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-19

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whom some people still believe what was
never true"
Here at last was the "Tiger" the Clemen-
ceau of the legend. This was the man who
a few months before had said to Viviani
then Premier "He has spoken, he speaks,
he will speak," and Viviani had fallen, to-
gether with a whole Cabinet of eloquence
The conversation drifted to politics.
What of the opposition % asked. "The
opposition in the Chamber I explained
Opposition He puzzled over that for
moment and then said with calmness:
But am the opposition 1t was the
famous phrase Of Louis XIV-"L'etat, c'est
nor but it was repeated without the
smallest note OF personal vainglory; it was
not boast; it was simple statement of
fact
81 am the opposition" he repeated, "and
it is an opposition to the conduct of the
war to the mistakes. 1t is an opposition
which wants things done better-that is
ALL
But those who want peace ~ asked
"Who are they?" he quericd
"What would happen, then" ! asked. try-
ing flank movement, what would happen
If some one should advocate peace now
peace without Alsace- Lorraine-a German
peace ?"
He reflected for moment, and then said.
with softness of voice which was hardly
deceptive:
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attached to the person of the Emperor Al
eXander.'
But in balance of power it will not do
to have the spies all on one side The
agent Freddi reported to Hager at the end
of September: "Captan Ferrari and two
men, named Cellin and Sartori. are the
three individuals who keep the Papal
nuncia secretly informed on affairs. But
it is a Protestant, whose wife has recently
been converted to Catholicism, who gives
him his most important information."
little later it was learned that this was
Frederic Schlegel, a secretary in the office
of Foreign Affairs