The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-01-19
President. I should have

Vigorous, The most endurinl
49, rnCst useful figure there ha'
S6Sk u ~ Cienenccau. He ma
- ycuthfu,ne~. he has had tn
i1enna ana the feAriessness o.
y II indeed the grand young mar
Heance and / ana proud 20 e.ane
4 Ind rrcrcsc that ne snouio -. -,
" SAia .F3At eonissn my
2Sss. "a rfne better auaiincd or ~
5SSs. .rsfrr~d IN occupy this char
~ Ts3efnenceau, and I speak from
~ ,~HDeriences in this claim
- and / have not always asIeeo.
t6a6nye very often agreed 80 ~
1f1raes disagreed and we nave ~
|fiI7-. axpressed our Disbursements re's
nknxicAlly. A.,svx
IN evttsble delays in the stgntne o.
1T7SS,Sa saue to the inherent oiuicui'e"
UhAt we have to settle. l wiz
DtAas from my ehoUisose vata
fSS~S ~. <eau that there Will be no ~"S'~
gs7 $500 that ts important The world
@Ax= aNirs,srv and hunecring tor rcaees
Si1n1rra Are millions Of persons VINO wan
|&SNa ~ back to the vera 1,n
IA S2sasH Ana the fact that M Siernen
&6nnt they will get there ~ithoa. "s'
sSSsnys which are due to snyth'nF e.
Il 2ss~re ,sintcunfes which are esseheia'
Esfn vhnt we have TO perform
..yYe In one Of the great speaker
ksxssae ne world Rut no one Kho~s =.
81 - than he that the best spaae.,t
E$SNA.s rhtrh does not impede osn"iGeHe
@ actions. ,,,,rine
$500. work da,x we have passed
$Sa0hrcrrh his courage~hts MAINS
untiring energy h's ~
nniration-hslped the allies throusn ~
N 1rtuu.ph and know Of no enc 70 WIN
" 800 rsrtory il more attributable than
III ~ me mar who sits in this CHAIR
IN his own person more thah any
s9x4nr man he represents the nereiSiH'
|EMA represents the genius OF the iho"'"
HAZE people of his land
And for these reasons / count ~ F."
nrtviiere that / should pc e@pe
SuIrNE.~CTAU's SPEECH.
premier Ciemenceaus speech was
sax follows:
gu would not expect me to keep
n#sp-ts- after what the two efnlhehN
IS-s a~Ss4se en- who have just spoken naSc
n4fd. I cannot help expressing ny
SSt my profound Ffa't'uoe f :"
gfssssstrious president Of the ohlten
1x "a the prime minister OF
~ 80, f.ritain and to Baron Sonnino
~ words that ] have Just neafo
sgseTs their lips.
s.Ioug ago when | was young as
r;ovd-f,eorge has recalled TO you,
sssen was travelling in America ana
E,ngland, l always heard the
III reproached for an excess OF
M es~sssy which went beyond the truth
ss listened TO the American states
ard 10 the English statesman
sSsEl area whether they had mot canght
Nfn Paris our national disease Never
gentlemen, / must say that
Ssss-- election in necessarily due to inc
-.dt-ionai courtesy TO the couh~
Y2trv which has the honor to receive the
ayeaee conference in its capital
~ wish also 10 gay that this testi-
S44.0nv of friendship, If they will allow
Erne the word, on the part or Pfesioeht
N4Tilson and Mr.. Lloyd George in par
&ftular, has touched me deeply beause
#a see IN ii a new strength TOT Ill
three of us to accomplish with the co
73gsss -aArastor of the entire conference the
rfsuors work which is entrusted TO
3S | Gather from II newconndehca
&ssu t,1ss success Of our efforts. President
|zA s~rss, has special authority to say
That this lis the first time IN fact thal
world has ever seen assembled TO-
kether..a delegation of all the civiiizeo
#N4iMftoItS OF the e3Tti. .
..Grcaier the Rcparation.'
s.The greater has been the bloody
&2sn fnstrophe which has devastated and
kznined one Of the richest parts OF
z&rnnne the greater and more spiendad
SSEs11Ilf ii;F ststss repsratian. not only the
SSxnteF4ai PREPARATION. the vulgar repa-
EatiCn III / dare speak so. which IL
md prevent them frefsf going
Obler PREPARATION of tho new constitu-
Sfx,n which we will try to establish in
SIrtIer that nations may at length es-
ienne from the fatal embrace OF rum
Fs45x 4, ssxfArv which destroy everything.
fs0np M ruins, terrorize the populace
..That gentlemen. is what l mad 10
1bout their work for fear OF enemies
Tho may rise up from one DAY 10 the
ext.
sS ssTt In a great, splendid and noble
snahition which has come TO all of us,
III II desirable that success should
R2e0vd our efforts. This cannot take
SSNnce unless we have all firmly fixed
IA clearly determined IDEAS on wha'
FN wish to DO so
s2ssY raid in the chamber few Gays
and I wish to repeat here, that
seeaes il not possible unless we re-
frrnly united. We have come
|742ln4hAr as friends That. gentlemen,
s4he first thought that comes to me
alse ,rus; be subordinated to the
xoonsity Of closer union among the
etHho have taken part in this
f159 var and to the necessity OF re-
1xfning friends For the league OF
5Snn1e " here: it is yourself 1t is for
- make it live and to make II
f31 1e must. have II really in our
@SsAs L told President Wilson a few
So axo there is no sacrihce ,hat
nof willing to make in order to
sAlf9b This and do not doubt