The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-11-17
WILSON HOLDS
GREAT REGARD
FOR TIGER
Statesmen Friendly
Despite Clashes
BY MARK SULLIVAN

ClACd blAC0 IAO Wal bLlA 004AuS ~
many Americans have had some men
tai reservations and have indulged in
secret doubts about the ultimate use
fulness of the appearance of America
giving enthusiastic applause. But as
to Clemenceau, who arrives tomorrow, |
the writer has never heard any Of the |
Americans who were in contact with |
Clemenceau during the war and dur
ing the peace conference give utter
ance to any other sentiment except |
regard and affection.
During the war the institutions OF
censorship and propaganda built up
a considerable number of inaccurate
pictures of statesmen and military
leaders which we shall have to un-
learn before we can value them cor
rectly. But CIemenceau is genuine.
He is all that he is pictured.
At the peace conference he opposed
Wilson and the Americans accom-
paying Wilson almost. savagely, but
every one o. the Americans, including
Wilson himself, ended the experience
with high regard for the "Old Tiger"
Wilson Liked cIemenceau
Lloyd George did not oppose Will
son as steadily or as stoutly as Glenn
enceau did, but there is plenty of evil
dence to show that Wilson had much
higher regard for the Frenchman than
for the Englishman. Lloyd George did
not oppose anybody with any continu-
ity. At one time or another he was
all over the lot. On one occasion he
even helped Wilson against Clemen-
ceau. But what Wilson really felt
about Lloyd George can be guessed
from a passage in the book recently
published by Mr.. Wilson's confiden-
tial associate, Ray Stannard Baker,
Woodrow Wilson and the World Set
tlement" Mr.. Baker says:
Lloyd George was a great disap-
pointment to President Wilson. He
had failed the president utterly while
the latter was absent in America
Lloyd George seemed to have no guild
ing principles whatever. He was pow
erfully on one side one day and power
fully on the other the next. He was
personally one of the most charming,
amiable, engaging figures at Paris,
full of Celtic quicksilver, a torrentia.
talker in the conferences, but no one
was ever quite sure, having heard him
express an unalterable determination
on one day, that he would notsbe un-
alterably determined some other way
on the following. He was full of sud
den, bright ideas, he contracted en-
thusiasm, he had panics, and amused
or charmed nearly everybody with
whom he came into personal con-
tact"
Glad To Meet Again.
But while this probably is very
mild version of what Wilson thinks
about Lloyd George, his feeling about
Clemenceau was one of liking and re-
spect, and the meeting between the
two men in Washington early next
month will undoubtedly give pleasure
to both.
At the peace conference Wilson and
Clemenceau were directly opposed.
Wilson wanted the security of France
to rest wholly on the League of Ma
tions. Clemenceau was willing to toler-
ate the league but had no great faith
in it. He wanted Frances security to
rest on military guarantees. In spite
of the prolonged deadlock between the
two men on this issue, each had a
curiously sympathetic understanding
and admiration for the intellectual
qualities of the other.
One day in the French Chamber of
Deputies. some one charged that Gle
menceau was permitting himself to
come under the influence of Wilson.
Clemenceau in making it clear there
was no danger of his yielding, pictured
Wilson as being an idealist.
Description of Wilson
One Of Clemenceau's phrases was to
the effect that Wilson was a man of
"grandecandeur" literally this phrase
merely means great candor" but
Clemenceau's manner and the context
showed that he meant to picture Will
son as a man whose eyes were lit.
tie more on the stars and his feec a
little less firmly on the ground than
Clemenceau's own.
On a different occasion Wilson spoke
little complainingly of Clemenceau as
having "a kind of feminine mind. AS
Wilson used the phrase he did not i'm
ply anything slightly; but rather {
mind that would listen sympathetically
to argument and emotional appeal, but
would remain of the same opinion still
Mr.. Baker describes an incident char
acteristic of the long dead-locK De
tween the two men in the sessions o.
the Big Four
'On one day" says Mr.. Bakers book
the session broke up with bitter
charges by Clemeneeau that Wilson
was "pro-German" that he was seek
ing TO destroy France"
President Touches Frenchman
The president. bitterly offended
went for a long drive in the bois dur
ing the noon intermission and at tht
beginning OF the afternoon session h,
stood up before the three others anC
in a great appeal-Admiral Grayson
who heard 1t, said it was one of tn,
most powerful speeches the presiden
ever made-set forth again his visiol
of peace.
After 1t was over NJ. Clemenceal
was much affected and he shook tn
presidents hand and said you are
good man, Mr.. President, and you ar,
a great man
But though the president coul'
touch Clemenceau's emotions, he coul
not make Elm yield"
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