Evening star., 1921-10-02
TIGER CLEMENCEAUT TAKES
UPCUDCEL AGAINST BRAND
Ends 2l Months of
Silence to Enter
Fray at Eighty.
is UNDIMINISHED
BY ANDRE TARDIEU.
Former French High Commissloner to
America.

b1 ANDRE TAHDIEI,
Former French High Commissioner to
America.
By Cable to The Star.
PARIS, October Tomorrow, Sum-
day, after twenty-one months of silence.
Georges Clemenceau makes his first
speech since leaving office as premier
Of France. The speech will be deliv-
cred at the unveiling Of monument
erected in his honor by his fellow citi-
zens in his native department, Vendee
This event is awaited with eager
curiosity in political circles. and indeed
in all France
The Tiger" was eighty years old
Wednesday. His vigor is undiminished
He can write for five hours at a sitting
and can travel 800 miles day in an
automobile.
After the vote of January 16. 1920.
had deprived him Of the premiership,
vote which called out the statement
of great American newspaper that cit
destroys part Of the good opinion France
enjoys" Clemenceau has visited Egypt,
then retired to his little Verdee house
built on the beach among the fishermen
Comes From Obscurity.
He comes now from obscurity to cele-
brate with the French soldiers, among
whom the sculptor has placed him, and
to issue a solemn note of warning to
the country. Clemenceau has accepted
parliament's ingratitude without COM
plant or a desire for revenge
If now he throws off his reserve
need l say it is not for personal ends?
Circumstances induce him after near
ly two years retirement to sound the
same danger signal with which in
1917 he inspired failing France and
her hesitating allies.
My American readers know how
these circumstances are regarded by
the men who in war and peace work
ed with Clemenceau and have re-
mained faithful to his conceptions
Since early in 1870 we have upheld
our ideas against a majority which
begin to see how right we were.
What will Clemenceau say to-
morrow?
I'VE made Germany bend the knee
at Versailles in 1919. How has she
since been permitted to forget it?
ments which no longer count for
anything. How is it to be explain
ed? Yesterday We were conQuerors.
Let no man bring us to the point of
wondering If we still are today" 8,
Treaty Binds sfsners.
/ have said it myself repeatedly
Our contention is that the treaty
binds those who have signed and ratified
it. If David Lloyd George. the Brit
ish prime minister, is guilty of day
after day demanding revisions to
ernment is still more guilty for
agreeing to these revisions instead
of holding to the treaty terms pure
and simple.
Clemenceau never pretended that
a peace made by four powers could
be perfect for each. But he will say
tomorrow that all changes made in
the treaty by the governments which
succeeded his own have been detri-
mental to France. This very week a
majority of the departmental as
semblies have made the same obser-
walton and have urged the govern
ment, alas, tardily, to return to the
treaty terms
1 am no prophet, but I am sure I am
not mistaken when 1 say that If the
press of France tries to stifle Glenn
enceau's warning the country will
be profoundly stirred. All of the
private and selfish interests the
Tiger" had to squash to open the
road to victory. all Of the stern
measures he had to take measures
to Save the country, have since been in
league against him and his work.
Proposes to Hasten Hour.
But truth will prevail, as always.
and its hour is nigh. Clemenceau
believes, moreover. that it is not
good enough to wait for that hour:
he proposes salsas'en it. For wien