New-York tribune., 1922-11-19
Representatives of City
and Nation Greet Him
as Ship Docks; Flags
Line PROFESSIONS Path
War Must Not Be
Repeated, He Says
Ex-Premier Jubilant on
Revisiting New York
After 53-Year Abse

a vigorous figure in the history of
France since the days of the Third
Empire, landed in New York yester-
day, determined to tell the American
people that they owe a duty to civ
ilization. He did not define that
duty, but limited that he would do so
on Tuesday night when he speaks at
the Metropolitan Opera House.
Nobody can ascribe any personal
aim to my act in visiting this coun~
try" exclaimed the old statesman,
when he was formally welcomed at
City Hall. my life is over" Then,
in passionate phrases that he had
not intended to speak in that setting,
he lifted corner of the curtain of
his mind and revealed his vision of
world filled again with the smoke
and blood of war.
I'm my own life I have seen my
country twice invaded by the Ger
mans. Twice. / don't want to see
that repeated" 1t is that fear that
dominates this old man; it is that
idea that has sent him off on a cru
| sade in strange land.
Relives Former Visit
But Clemenceau would not agree
that it is a strange land. On his
ride up Broadway and Fifth Avenue
ne was as eager as child to indicste
buildings that became familiar to his
Eeyes when he was here as Young
French Immigrant seeking the fame
that did not come until he had re-
turned TO his native land. But before
he saw those buildings yesterday he
4 had had other experiences that de-
i lighted him. These began before he
left the liner Paris, which brought
him here from France.
A city steamer, the Macon, with a
distinguished company aboard, I'm
Guiding several men who were con-
spicuous in the American peace dele
/ cation which went to Paris to par
ticipate in the making of the Treaty
Of Versailles, left Pier A, close by the
Battery, about 1925 o'clock yesterday
morning and dropped down the harbor
| to Quarantine, where the Paris was
at anchor. Aboard were the French
Ambassador, Jules j. Jusserand:
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chiefly instrumental in bringing NJ.
| Clemenceau to the United States:
Robert Woods Bliss, Third Assistant
| Secretary of State, representing the
| United States government; Frank L.
Polk, Assistant Secretary of State in
the Wilson Cabinet; Otto Kahn,
Bernard Baruch; representatives of
patriotic organizations, and Colonel
Stephen Bonsal, who will guide theIA
! visitor mn his ft.ir n AaIf
cities.
The Macon steamed up to the port
side of the Paris, and then, after an
exchange of opinion between the two
/ shippers, backed off and came around
TO the starboard side From nearly
every port hole in the high, black side
of the steamer protruded a head, and
every head was turned in one direction,
pointing as surely as bird dogs at game
at the dropping white mustached head
of M. Clemenceau, leaning on his ell
bows in window of the upper deck.
The tug Manhattan was alongside the
Paris. So many passengers had fol-
lowed the Frenchman to the port side
of the ship that the vessel listed
! sharply, and the captain of the Ma
com, fearful of tangling his masts in
the overhang of the larger ship, made
fast to the side of the tug.
Band Plays "Madeions
! The band of the Street Cleaning De-
partment, hitherto disguised in the an
| nouncement of the Clemenceau visit as
| the committee band" began to play
| HMadelon," that tune dedicated to Cie-
menceau, to the cadences of which most
of the soldiers who fought against Ger
many marched before their military
careers ended with death or demobili-
zation. shout from the deck of the
| Macon attracted the attention of the
1 the Hall of Clocks when the Germans
1 signed the Treaty of Versailles.
4 He looked down, lifted high from his
| bald head his carelessiy creased gray
| felt hat, and then his face expanded
| in wide smile as he recognized the
| deputation there to welcome him.
| Colonel House and the others of the
rail of the Macom1 crossed the deck Of
! the tug and were welcomed into ca
vernous opening in the side of the
Paris by the gold-laced figure of Cap
tain Maurras.
In person he led the way to the
| upper deck to the corridor outside the
grand lounge. The captain clapped his
hands. The keys were missing. The
4 glass doors had been locked. Not to
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Il tainly not. To keep out the less dis-
i tinguished passengers. Presently the
keys were brought, the glass doors
were swung back with a fionrish and
4 there with hands outstretched was
Georges Clemenceau.
n Jusserand was the first to greet hims
They embraced. for they s~s -is
n friends. Then they stood off anor
a looked at each other affeetionately.
NJ. Cfemenceau saw dapper little man
with piercing brown eyes, impaired
hair streaked with gray, combed for-
+ ward, silk hat extended from pos
sible ruffiing in another embrace. JUS
serand saw rssan bald except for tufts
| of white hair, man with shaggy,
ragged brows that suggest the terrier
rather than the Tiger; not tall fig
ure in black and gray check suit cuE
4 round at the skirts; in all a man who