The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-01-18

desertIpn of Greece was to him, patent
oh, the unhappy Serbs" he con-
tinued, 'and we, we French have had
to ~re-equip their army. Yes, we have
sent to them the uniforms. the equip
ment at. Corfu. Invaded France. has
done that, please remember that" and
his eyes lighted again.
But you must go to Verdun,' he
said; you must see our soldiers as
they are; 90, go everywhere; see
them all and you must go and then
you can go back to America and tell
your countrymen what France is like,
what it Is. You must see 1t for your
sell, certainly you must see our SOL
The conversation became general and
for the next few moments he talked of
many things, with the same character
istic energy, impotence, frankness-
energy in laying forth the dangers, i'm
patience Of the fools and the blunders
which filled his columns in that
epoch, and made the arrival of each
edition Of his paper In event almost as
considerable as the communique; frank
ness. for II is the terrible frankness of
the man which has created the Clemen-
As he led me to the door. at the close
Of the audience, l. vas again struck
with the energy and force OF the man.
In an odd way he reminded me. OF Col,
Roosevelt, q smaller man. lacking in
S Sst Snm nhS EssSS' S By s0m snd getting HIns
over the ground with that same vigor-
ous forward thrust, which is familiar to
all who have seen Col. Roosevelt in &C.
ton,
At the door he reminded me again Of
America, You will see everything and
cans. They must understand. 1 know
II they understand 1t will be all right,
As for me-, | have always liked Amer
lea, l knew il once-but that was very
long ago., yes, as l told you. l am ar
old man"
Looking backward now, after three
years, and trying to recall the faces
and the words of the men l have me
In the public life OF Britain n France
, Lloyd George, Balfour, Poincare, Pain
leve, l find that even now my, recol
lection Of Clemenceau is the c~learest
= him a sense of force, of power, a sor
Of fearlessness alike o% phrase and o
: form, What the man felt you would b
sure e he would art say S,nI he wo on an say
! whether it destroyed a ministry 0
/ merely labeled an opponent.
4 Again, l recall the touch of Roose
welt, a much polished Roosevelt, th
q master Of the phrase and Of the man
= ner which the colonel had not, TIL
" man who Yields a rapier, not q broad
sword who strikes but once, where tn
= colonel battered and pounded until q
last he destroyed his foe. sometimes b
mere b%ruising. But In energy, IN fear
y enoeau Is like no other man l hav
o ever met in the public life OF the thre
countries.
= And when 7 came back to my Frenc
friends and told them Of Clemenceau,
q the Clemenceau | had met. they laughe
"a a. 49, n Itkl, 4,Aarnl.nlnttUl3B OC ~ Az
d who had insisted on preserving h
10 gods, despite. having encountered Il
fact, And when l asked them, u !
, would come back" they one and a
said; Impossible. Clemenceau
of-~of-' No, decidedly he is too DAT
ut gerous; he is terrible. 1t is impossible
But now Clemenceau. has "eon
back" The man who said TO me Il a
the OppTSsition;n Is to fois The eyer !,
l. politician who talked peace. "surreli
der peace, German peace" would p,
a shot, "decently," has made good h
words and in the lonely and dangero,
the least, the best wishes of all tho,
in Britain and In America, who ca
+. most for France and desire most to 81
= her come unspoiled and restored, fro
this terrible struggle. (
d, For the final Terrible year OF W
Clcmenceau has been the incarnation
d, the will to live in France, In a sen
Id this old man, the Connecticut scho
te teacher Of the period when the CT,
r. wal was Just over In America, was Il
final hope for France. Yiviani, he
en- the words, BRAND, who ohce more tir
as under a great task, Patnleve, q
scholar, Incredibly active, but inesca
ee ably didactic, they all failed and VIII
Id the enemy was again at Noyon. al
ly still within n OF Rheims, but VIII,
re pessimists came from France bringi
IA, words Of evil I thought always of. Il
anan. Clemenceau, as he sat behind
or gun empiacement, two years eetol
he some poilu, who was glad, ] doubt NJ
TO lend It, and saying;
no 'Once had doubts about Franz
o. once | feared for my countrymen, b
I'm now. is It not wonderful, Ia 1t not II
h~elievable!'
There are men in whom you belie'
lie, once you have seen them. | do I
think men would trust Clemenceau
they do Roosevelt; his following W
~, sscnsily asmire or love him, But I
IN thing you must feel about the man
that ne will fight It out: he has fous
hall a century. fits enemies ha
he passed, he it is, who has survive
To- And as he was the first premier
he Germany, the first since 1870. so he Z
served and achieved v~ictory-as a m
y, who has no fear and has never yet ST
Today men all over the world {
He reading with JOY OF the return
eat | France TO her lost provinces
lhs French generals In Colmar. In N