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Gradually the 84-year-old "Tiger" softened, as several veteran Senators strolled in. Grouped about him, they inquired after his failing health. "Que faites-vous, mon cher M. Clémenceau?" they asked, espying the volume of Goethe...
...Clémenceau. "An Asiatic? At first glance he seems one . . . with his yellow skin, his saddle-nose between prominent cheekbones, and his Tartar moustache . . . a bully out of Brittany . . . an all too aged Cyrano . . . sitting by the fireside, in his peasant boots and grey suede gloves . . . uttering harsh words of scorn . . . the Prussianest of Frenchmen! . . . I could show you letters of German generals and princes who sigh: 'If only we had a German Clémenceau...
...Chicago Civic Opera Company began a 10,000-mile transcontinental tour. The first .stop was scheduled for Boston, then Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Chattanooga, Cincinnati, Tulsa, Houston, Dallas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Wichita, Kansas City. Mefistofele, Boris, Cléopatre, The Jewess and Salomé will be featured...
...devoted to a vigorous defence of the author's character, which has been much maligned by the French for weakness in dealing with treachery behind the lines. He terms all such niaiserie "legends" and proves that sedition in the Army had been cured by his pill before Clémenceau came on the scene. Following up the attack, he says that it was he and not Clémenceau who ordered the arrest of the most notorious traitors, notably Bolo Pasha...
...drawn into the Dreyfus case. In politics he is violently anticlerical, but is said to have too much ingenuousness in his character to make a good politician. Early in the War he was Minister of War under Premier Ribot. It is from about this time that his enmity for Clémenceau dates. Previously they were good if not cordial friends...