Word: ans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Though private property is supposed to be anathema at Moscow and sacred at Rome, the Fascist decree under which the seizures were made in Italy last week reads in part: "Property is not an end in itself. Those who own it have special duties with regard to the collectivity of...
As the Second Empire fell, young Dr. Clemenceau?for like his father, grandfather and great-grandfather he was an M.D.?seized every toehold to scramble up in the third republic. Poor patients helped to get their medico chosen Mayor of disreputable Montmartre, later a deputy to the National Assembly...
Enemies dragged the name of Clemenceau into the Panama scandals of the '90s. Though falsely accused he lost his seat in parliament, seemed ruined. But another scandal?the Dreyfus case?made him a hero. As editor of L'Aurore he wrote the famed caption "J'Accuse!" above the most potent...
Dr. Clemenceau was 66 when he first became Prime Minister in 1906. He styled himself "an old debutant," worked passionately to achieve the Entente with England.
Few U. S. citizens realize that he went out of office in 1909, that he was not Prime Minister of France during the first three years of the war. As editor of L'Homme Libre and, when that was suppressed, of L'Homme Enchaine, he preached such deathless, rampant patriotism...