Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-12
CLEMENCEAU BOOK
HOLDS U. S. GREEDY
"Tiger" Scores Pershing and
Foch-ASSaiIS Americas
Separate Peace.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 12.-George
Clemenceau's last sharp retort to his
late antagonist, Marshal Ferdinand
Foch, will be published in book form
here today under the title, Grandeur
and Misery of Victory"
Writing beside his death-bed, the
French tiger has taken the ghost Of
the allies generalissimo to task for ere
ordinations and abuse" and accused
! America of greedy materialism
The treaty of Versailles, to the war
time Minister of France, who died only
recently on completion of this final
book, was mutilated by Americas
! separate peace"
Sees Wilson as Visionary.
President Wilson is seen as a vision
airy, with an insufficient knowledge of
Europe.to carry out his theology. Gen.
PerShing comes ins for comment for
| what Clemenceau called a "fanatical
determination to delay the arrival Of the
Star-Spangled Banner on the battle
! field"
For this delay in the employment of
the American forces, Clemenceau large
ly blamed Foch's "hesitancies and TEN
peringS OF authority"
THE marshall" he wrote, chad the
power to command. On his own adrnis-
sion he preferred to suggest"
OF the rather serious disagreement
with Gen. Pershing," Clemenceau said:
THE American troops in the first rank
as far as bravery is concerned were first
and foremost excellent soldiers in a
state Of mere improvisation"
Tells of Pershing Disagreement.
During the Spring of 1918, Clemen-
ceau said, he importuned Gen. Pershing
to send into action in the French ranks
the first American contingents that
were considered sufficiently trained so
as to relieve us as much as possible st
the sharpest pinch of such a crisis of
manpower as our armies had never
known before"
But Pershing lowed it to the romantic
side of Americas Intervention to form
a Self-contained American Army, duty
never failed to acknowledge.
His Government, his country, his
Army even, kept him in suspense, and
the more insisted the more the Amer
lean general resisted"
AS for President Wilson, che acted
to the very best of his abilities in cir
cumstanceS the origins of which had
escaped him and whose Interior develop
Col Edward House he saw as "a
super-civilized person escaped from the
w1dS OF Texas, who sees everything,
who understands everything, and, while
never doing anything but what he
thinks tit, knows how to gain the ear
and respect of everybody" and "Mr.
Hoover, who was conspicuous for the
stiffness of the man whose nerves are
at the end of their tether."
Vital Spark Gone in France.
In France, Clemenceau concluded,
the vital spark is gone.
Our allies, Disabled have contrib
uted largely to this result and we nave
never done anything to deter them.
England in various guises has gone back
to her old policy of strife on the con-
tinent and America, prodigiously en-
rtched by the war, is presenting us with
a BRIDESMAIDS account that does more
honor TO her greed than to her self
reSpert
Grown rich in the war, America is,
If we can believe the experts, setting out
to ruin us by intercepting, for the ex-
travaganres of her budding nouveaux
riches, the sums that we are to receive
as separations for the damage caused by
Germany.
Sees u. S. as Thorn to England.
"At the same time she is a thorn in
the side of England, who can no longer
aspire to the dominion Of the seas I'M
der the pretext of freedom All the
new Central Europe is in a state of
turmoil as result Of the rerrulescene
| of violent activity on the part Of q
Germany, who, with the unwilling help
OF the English and Americans, is pre-
pairing to start on another criminal
venture before she has expiated the
last"
Above ALL" he warns America, "do
not be so ingenious as to believe that
you will disarm, by methods of persua-
sion, the powers who see you strength
ening against every eventuality your
means of defense, which might turn into
means of aggression"
Grandeur and Misery of Victory" Is
| published in this country by Harcourt,
Brace & Co. and was carried in part
| by Golfers Weekly, which holds Joint
copyright for the United States.
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