Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-06-11
WIt SON STORY TELLER
OF PEACE conference
President Often Relieved Tedium
or Strain of Farley by Short,
Apt Tales.

NJ Paul Mantoux, director of the
,,.,l;t;cal se, tion of the sccretarlat OF the
Ina,,,e.,f nations. who held the important
,,ne,tion of Interpreter of the lnter-aliied
aas,,fnrcrces ana of the supreme war
council. tells many amusing ana m
torcsting stories in connection with hls
d,t,cs as Interpreter at the Parls fcace
Conference. SAYS The London eie-
ersnh Ii was, he said, rather hard ioi
4 man to interpret himself alter inter
prctlng other people, -
~pcakng Of the Council oi ioOF' nc
IN l3orouslv remarked that he also was
ri ere. making five. lie listened 70 u"!Ss
~ nrople and noticed all sorts OF httic
INNS. apart from The subjects d'tS 0iS-
,,ssed lie did not pretend To give nm
-, from the conclusions arrived at
IL. NIr Keynes IN his Look on the economic
sidc III inc war. but there were some
entertaining pagcs about the Council ol
Eorr There was only one Objection that
bc migbt make and that was that MI,
kcvrrs had not really ever seen the
Co;,nrI Of -Four. Mir kcyEcs was some
t,mcs called 10 n room upstairs at the house
,,.,,,.,,,nd ly President " llson, where cN-
,,orti wore listened to They might thhk
what they liked, but experts we're geiieI"l1
i, considered rs EoreS; they were ilstcilc"
- I'M i was a really lard task. Experts
-, Wrought IN on all sorts OF questions
csn.ciaIlv IN regard 10 details, and thcN
laJ tn1c listened to, but the Council oi
Tn,r reserved the main pont@ to them
selves and decided them IN an@'htf
room. MIR. Lloyd George occ'ip1ed
large comfortable armchair NJ /. lcii,'h-
ccau occupied another near 70 ItNiIe!l'
Wilson and at the other end o. the 'a'' '',e'
where he sat, was Signor ',fiah"o' WI"
showed great cagernesS " h""" 'N''S
thing that was gong en-
Conversation was very lni"'h'd a''u
very friendly. Sometimes. Wiicn i'i'"e
ii some unknown locality was mentioned,
s,,rb IL Jerusalem or Coustantinople, u
Iaru,, man was brought in, and then those
,,rrat men might hc seen craving on Inc
tnnr lie saw it once or twice with great
d,llght. lie had really n hard time lie
bad ta rush TO the Foreign Ofi'ce ~ !
i orlork In the morning. dictate notes oi
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the dav before, and present something II
much like il as possible IN ahoNt Two
hours. lie aftcrward jumped into motor
raT and went to President Wilson mouse
rbcrc the sitting began 4 few moments
l,,c, Sometimes the Council Oi Four had
fhcir moments of leisure when docu-
n,er,ts we're required. aud the interval was
rassod in STORYTELLING PRESIDENT liSoh
Mas GOOD at short stories lie toid 9Ge
about 4 Chinaman and the moon. ilc
said there was Chnaman VINO, Wieh
taking water out OF q we'll an0 seeing tite
reflection of the moon, sald - tailsch,
"Oh. this IS very serious lhVeea. l'
mcon has fallen into the well arg Il, L I
my duty to trv To take Il out hen
.f-o3 nrssi ro11itPI nara
i 10 could $50 hard that TIC teil On his
I,aclz and ON looking up saw tho moon n
tho sky. To himself he then sad, Ncii.
that i good work. That was typical
of the small stories which President Wi
son would give between two great DIS
cussions.
on another occasion, during an IN
teryal N the proceedings, Mr. Lloyd
George asked NJ ClemencCau hls oplnlon
of the great orators Of the French lnhune,
and nj. Clcmenceau gave very VIVID
n;cflro NJ his friends who had spoken IN
French assemblies during the last forty
cr ffty wears. He placed NJ. Nlylam ~
the forefront as tho greatest living french
man and considered that among thc
orators he had heard NJ Gambetta and
NJ Jal1rcs were FIRST by 8 long distance
Thof,rh he hrl Quarreled very much "lth
both. he did not mind expressing his
warm admiration Of their great powers
in that line.
PeopIc had wondered why NJ iemen-
ceau attended the gathering oi great
men always wearing gray gloves ana never
took them off Thus gave rise TO much
speculation, hIIt simple cNlfaEat1on was
eventually forthcoming. N. Oieinencca0 z
told him that his skin was constantly
L fr.3 ~
tbine of that sort He therefore put on
claves because he could not shake hands
With people or write with hands ~ that
condition.. That was the key 80 the gloves
mystery
NJ Ciemenceau was = man who had
70 great opinion of human nature, and
e>,,reesed tie view that many things
which pcoule obiected to were inevitable
because. after all man was poor animal
lie sand he Was dlsgEstcd with the poHtlcal
situation in France before the war, ana
that ne did not know how the coun-
try would get on after it. tie admired
what the country did during the war, but,
lie remarked. the real test OF vitality was
what thev could do after the var. ] hat
,,roi.Je1n was more difficult than the
hobting problem. and he was glad he
would not have to carry that burden on hls
shoulders.
II was comparatively easy to make
war so long as there were men Wiling TO
die hut when they were faced afterward
with all sorts Of terrible problems imam
cial social and others they required
the brains and courage OF q whole nation
In silrmOunt them Nj Ciemenceau was
sometimes very angry with some one
or other. but when he understood the
noint Of yiew upon which the difference
arose he admitted there WAS something
good In II
At the last appearance Of NJ Gle
nenceau made he delivered 8 long speech
To few delegates representing the Jugo-a
Slavs. In which lie persuaded them, how
ever difficult it might be- 10 accept the
settlement. All present were deeply moved
on that occasion Before everything else
the French statesman was man Of
great courage, and so acted all his life
He saw it in a small way when NJ. Cle-
nenceau. in crossing to England IN a de-
stroyer last December, broke a rlb. When
he reached London, the French states
man was asked if he would not like tl
consult doctor. and replied: hat Is
no good; | have been q doctor myself
1t was only on his return to Parls that
he had to follow that advice, and then Il
was discovered that rib had been broken.
As consequence, NJ. Clemenceau had
to remain indoors for some days, and Il
was during that period that he 81. Man
toux) witnessed one Of the most striking
eues that had taken place during the
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