Word: frenchmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...restoration and protection of France. It was not the least of the services performed for France by that wise old man, George Clemenceau, that he refused to be swept on by the extremists and limited his ultimate demands to the substantial results which the treaty secured. Comparatively few Frenchmen demanded the outright annexation of the left bank, the speaker admitted, nor was the number large who wished to prepare for it by an indefinitely prolonged military occupation. It was maintained that this was the real frontier of all the Allies, the front line that must be held at all cost...
...growing class of men who want more than a reading knowledge. They are the men who will fill diplomatic posts, positions as representatives of great banking or commercial houses--an ever increasing group of participants in world trade and international transactions. They want to be able to deal with Frenchmen, Germans, and South Americans without the hinderance of interpreters...