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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...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, printed such reckless denouncements of even highest government officials when he suspected them of pacifism, that at first some thought him mad. In the end. all France saw him as the incarnate Will to Victory. In 1917 the allied reverses and the fall of the Painleve Cabinet left President Raymond Poincare an alternative...
...first friends we found in New York was Bukharin who had just been expelled from Scandinavia. . . . He welcomed us with childish exuberance. Although the hour was late and we were fatigued from the journey Bukharin insisted on taking me and my wife to see the New York Library...
...further expression of gratitude, James made Arabella's brother the first Duke of Marlborough, the line from which offshot England's present irrepressible Winston Churchill, whilom Chancellor of the Exchequer (TIME, June 17 et ante...
...Hailar, first important town occupied by the Russians last week, correspondents reported 12,000 Chinese casualties, lines of demoralized troops fleeing for the interior, looting as they went. In Dalai Nor several hundred terrified coal miners took refuge at the bottom of a shaft before the Soviet advance. Soviet troops stopped the pumps, drowned the lot. Crowds of refugees gathered at all stations along the Chinese Eastern Railway. Special trains chuffed 'back and forth, rushing Chinese citizens to safety, making no effort to collect fares...