South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-01-19

power, I should have bought"
he would not talk of Greece He had been for
years one of the greatest friends the Hellenic
dom and the desertOn OF Greece him. patiently,
in the nature Of personal sorrow.
SPIRIT SHOWS VERDUN.
oh the unhappy Serbs" ne continued, and We
have sent to them the uniforms. The equipment at
Corfu. Invaded France has done that please
Der ehat," and his lighted again.
But you must to Verdun," he said you must
see our soldiers as they are. I everywhere;
see them all and must go and then can
back America tell your countrymen what France
tainy you soldiers"
the conversation became general and for the next
few moments he talked of many things. with the
characteristic energy impatience ess-energy in
laying forth the dangers impatience the
the bllmders-Which filled his columns in that epoch.
and made the arrival OF each edition of his paper an
event almost considerable as the commUnioue;
fralness for it is the terrible franess the
which has created the Clemenceau of the legends.
AS he led to the door at close audience
1 again struck with the energy and OF the
man. In odd way he reminded me of Col. Roose-
comparison, but yet Enthusiastically burly getting
over the ground with that vigorous forward
thrust which is familiar to all who have Col.
Roosevelt in action
At the door he reminded AGAIN of America, You
will everything and you will back and tell the
Americans They must understand. I know if they
understand it will all right. for me, have
always liked America. 1 knew it once-but that
long yes told you, old man.
RECALLS CLEMENCEAU MOST CLEARLY.
Looking backward now after three years. and try
ing to recall the faces the words Of the
met in the public life of Britain and France, Lloyd
George Balfour, Poincare, Painlove 1 find that
my recollection of Clemenceau is the clearest.
Alone of all these men, there about him a sense
of power sort of alike of phrase
and of form What the felt you would be
he would say; he would say it whether himself
another, whether it destroyed a ministry
labelled opponent
Again 1 recall touch of Roosevelt much polished
Roosevelt, the master of the phrase and of the
which the Colonel had not. The man who Yields
times by bruising. But in energy careessness
have met in the public life OF the three
countries
And when I back to French friends and
told them Of Cemenceau of the ClemenceaU had met,
they laughed little ncredulously at enc
had insisted preserving his gods having
countered the fact And when 1 asked them if he
would come back they and all said, Impossible.
Clemenceau is finished. Do YOU what said
Of-of--. No. decidedly, he is too dangerous, he is
terrible 1t is impossible"
But Clemenceau has "come hack" The man
who said TO Il the opposition" today the
government The who told that the politi-
who talked peace surrender peace German
peace" would be shot "decenty' mas made good HIS
words in the lonely and dangerous enllnence he
occupies, he has at the least the best wishes Of
all those in Britain and in America who
France and desire most to her unspoled and
restored from this terrible struggle.
INCARNATION OF FRENCH SPIRIT.
For the final terrible year Of war Clemenceau has
been the incarnation of the will to live in France In