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Georges Clemenceau (Nov. 16, 1917, to Jan. 17, 1920), 85, most illustrious of living Frenchmen, first internationally famed for his successful championship with Zola of Captain Dreyfus. (See TIME, Jan. 4, FRANCE, "Tiger, Tiger!" for a life sketch.) He retired from public life, embittered, when defeated for the Presidency by "that vol-au-vent" (windbag) Paul Deschanel...
...long silence as he stood beside the open grave. The dead man thus greatly honored was M. Gustave Geffroy, 71, Président de 1'Académie Goncourt, Administrateur de la Manufacture des Gobelins,* a loyal associate of M. Clemenceau in his long fight to secure the freedom of Captain Dreyfus...
...everyone knows, the condemnation for treason of Captain Alfred Dreyfus, an Alsatian Jew, and his subsequent rehabilitation created an international scandal almost without precedent between 1904 and 1906. Anti-Semitism was the basis of the incredibly unjust treatment which Dreyfus received, but the trial stirred animosities which penetrated to the very core of French politics...
...first was the death, early in the week, of Senator Felix Jules Meline, 87, dean of French Parliamentarians, Premier during the period of the famed Dreyfus scandal, known as "The McKinley of France" on account of his indefatigable championship of the protective tariff. The passing of M. Meline, it was observed, leaves M. Clémenceau as practically the sole survivor of the group of great French statesmen who were in at the death of the Second Empire and waited as youthful accoucheurs upon the birth of the Third Republic...
Amid all this effort the strange case of Dreyfus, a Jewish Captain in the French Army, an alleged German spy, caught and fired the imagination of Clémenceau and Zola. Together they launched an attack upon the corrupt court martial which had convicted Dreyfus. The attack swelled into a national and then an international scandal the repercussions of which are still felt in France...