The Alaska daily empire., 1920-01-19

 day announced his resignation as | Premier, following the refusal of the | Chamber of Deputies to nominate l him as President of France. AleXan
 der Millerand, former Minister of
 War, has been named Prafaier to
 succeed Clemenceau.
 Captain Tardieu, Foreign Minister
 refused to remain as Minister of the Liberated Regions in the Cabinet of | Millerand. The new Cabinet in cludes Minister of Justice, M. L.
 Hopiteau; Minister of War Andre LeFevre; Minister of Labor, Paul Jourdain.
 The election of DesChanel as Pre- | sdent by the Chamber of Deputies with the assistance of some odd 30 Socialists members, who joined in opposing Clemenceau, proved d great surprise even in French ci.clas.
 Newspapers at home and every where are demanding details for er,. bellishing the life of the War Pre- mier, and reviewing his war history. He was we'll advanced in years when the war began. but threw himself 1 into the struggle with determina- tion which swept away all doubt and never hesitated during the dark est moments. French and other his torians credit the fine spirit which kept France battling against such odds at first sas5 due more rhaif- any | thin0 fx,t ;e ..ffY and energetic action of Clemenceau
 He had served in the Chamber of Deputies since 1876, had figured fn many bitter controversies, fought no less than six or seven duels, written a number of medical, sociological and economic books and composed two comedies. As the editor of L'Homme Libre, his pen was mightier than the sharpest sword in France He was keen, cutting, analytical, surgeon with words as his knife, and he spared neither friend or foe when he thought Frances interests were at stake. The height of his ambition seemed to have been reached on October 21. 1906, when President Fall Heres asked him to form a Cabinet and he became the Premier Of France. serving in that capacity until July 20, 1909, when he was succeeded by Aristides Briand.
 "The Tiger" resumed editorial work when he laid down the cares fof state to figure in scores of na- tional contests. He was an anti. Clerical and fought for separation of church and state. Although So- cialist, he opposed the electoral re- form bill in 1912 and a year later led the fight which resulted in the down. | fall of the Briand ministry. The start of the war in 1914 gave Clemen- ceau an opportunity to display his tbility as a free lance in attacking corruption and ineffciency. He was unsparing in his denunciation of mili- tary blunderers So rabidly anti administration did his articles be- come that L'Homme Libre was, on one occasion, suppressed. The pape, was being printed fin Paris. A few days later 1t appeared in Bordeaux under the name L'Homme Enchaine. Clemenceau refused to be silenced. When the Bolo Pasha and Caillaux revelations broke Frances spell of laissey faire, it. was Clemenceau who was credited with bringing the ex. posures about
 Throughout his second premiership Clemenceau seemed to lose all sense of partisanship. He thought only of victory. French veterans called him their confidence barometer" for. no matter how depressing the outlook 1 the Premier never lost heart. He i held, however, no spirit of rancor to-
 ward his barbarous foe. On one oc' casion he characterized the German air raids over London as "the work | of devils" but declared he was not
 in favor of reprisals by the same means. At another time, while view ing the burning of St. Quentin, he said: "Allied victory will near
 the liberation of civilization and mol
 revenge" He congratulated the Am
 erican forces for their brilliant fight | ing in wiping out the St. Mihie
 salient which had been a thorn 1T the Allies flesh since the beginning
 of the struggle. Later he decorated
 General Pershing with the Grant | Cross of the Legion of Honor
 | He was always strongly for unit,
 among the Allies and in the Suprem'
 War Council at Versailles, at whicl