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...Lords: CL Received with skepticism Air Secretary Baron Thomson's assertion that Britain ought to build another giant dirigible. "It might be asked," said Lord Thomson plaintively, "why the Graf Zeppelin can go around the world while our two airships spend their time mainly in sheds. . . . There are few Dr. Eckeners in the world and we have not had time to produce our Dr. Eckeners...
...believe I am the creator of the sobriquet 'Tiger' with a capital 'T' as applied to M. Clémenceau." said Editor Emile Buré of the Paris daily L'Avenor last week. "I am proud of the achievement! It will perhaps furnish the only chisel ever likely to cut my name in the granite of History...
...Editor Buré reminisced: "As far as I can recall, the incident took place in 1904. Clemenceau was then director of L'Aurore, and I was one of his editors. The caustic political sheet Le Gil Bias, which Mortier directed, published one day a very sarcastic attack on Clémenceau in which his character was described as being 'fierce as that of a tiger...
...significance struck me however, and for some days after that whenever M. Clémenceau would arrive in the morning, I would say: 'Here comes the "Tiger."' It gradually became a nickname to those of us who loved him, and little by little we always spoke of le patron ('the boss') as Le Tigre...
...Soon the name spread beyond our editorial room and Dollfuss inserted a brief item in the Cri de Paris. It was soon adopted universally. It was a fit name. It indicated the delight M. Clémenceau took in getting his claws into an enemy and holding on while the other writhed in pain...