The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-11-10
GLEMENCEAtj $ HAPPY ON EVE
 0F DEPARTURE
French "Tiger'' Sets Sails
 for America Tomorrow Will Unfold European Political Conditions Here.

Paris, Nov. 10-tBy A. P)- Georges Cienleuccau s;tiTs away for America tomorrow happy i'll the spirit of adventure. Today he Has gay, interested and inter- est!ng-kccn to be off. Consid- crtng his great age-the eager ness with which the Tiger of France anticipates the eNperI- enCeS that are SOOn to come 90 him in the United States is
 quite touching to those who sec him and talk with him.
 What imDresses his American call
 CTS the most is his youthfulness Of outlook. He talks of the present ara the fueure in the manner of a man in l middle life. He refuses to be remIrs- cent.
 the past" Clemenceau remarked to the corresC ondent, who inquired
 about the former pte7nier's earlier visits to the United States. This is Ii ot his second trip to America. as Is commonly supposed, ut his third. First Coming to U. g.
 My father. who was exfled by Napoleon III. thought 1t would be a good thing for me to go to America, and I went" CIemenceau said. 'H
 had been following events of your Civil War and my synlpathies we-s with the North. Almost immediately 1 Richmond. There I met a good many Southern people and soon found out how delightful. how simply snarm- ing they were.'
 sshortIy before my arrival Grant had taken the city and I saw for the first time what swar and bonn bar(l- ment meant Then I went to Wash ington and later out west far Chicago and from there to Buffalo. | and after d while to Boston," Forgcts Romance Here. Tn conversation Clemenceau seldom o!ludes tc his subsequent experiences | III America, first d young gentle | man of leisure reading extensively for
 two years in the libraries of New York and then a teacher in a girls school in Connecticut It was during his days as an instructor at the girls school at Stamford, Conn.,, that Cle1n- enecau met the young woman who l became his wife.
 At that time she was under age and
 her guardian refused to give his con- ing on the churchs benediction. l Clemeneceau stoutly declined to rec osn1ze the church as essential to a
 wedding. So he went back home still l unmarried That was in 1869. lie had spent four years in America. The next year he crossed the Atlantic again and was married to his sweet heart, at civil cereUony.
 His stay in America gave to ''The
 Tiger" that knowledge of English which has been one of his most use lie career. Always he has taken pleasure in the language and in it's literature.
 My i-tentieoS' in going. to America
 aged politician said. 'I see with con- siderable clearness how it will be to
 che material and moral interests of the United States to examine Eu- ropean difficulties with other concep- tions than those they have at pres ent.''
 Will Discuss League Here.
 Clemenceau expects to enlarge his gis own judgment of European sit nations by putting his ideas into con- saee t with American views. He does n1ade up and closed as to what woaId he to the mutual and collective ad- vantage of the United States, France and Europe generally.
 1T shall talk about the League of Nations, but I have no specific advice to offer,' he remarked. T believe in the idea of the League. The world must have som ething of the sort do not say that the League as it now exists is what Americans should adopt It does not satisfy me, but I am for the aspirations"
 CIemenceau has received immense quantities of advice from Americans as to what he should or should not l say in his speeches. American trav- ellers of distinction who have passed l through Paris during the last two | mo months have heaped some of this ad- | vice upon him, and others of no dis | tinction whatever have added to the | Dutu0h upOll HIS SdIS dIlu eyes, No | have many Americans domiciled in l France. Even those living in the l United States-thousands of them felt a strange impulse to admonish | and guide the Tiger by their letters 1 and to warn him against the compleXi- l ties of American politics. Some of l the writers cautioned him not to be | indiscreet and vex the Republicans. l Others begged him not to disapp oint | the Democrats.
 Of this flood of literature, Clemen- | ceau has only this to say:
 ." shall of course have nothing to l say about Americas internal poli- | tics.''
 The Tigers health appears to be ex- cei1ent, and equal to the strain of travel and public speaking that is sure to conc. l