Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thought," says L'Illustration, "that Clemenceau had left no memoirs--with the exception of certain recollections of the war and the peace . . . But here are the memoirs--written from numerous conversations with a man whom Clemenceau honored with his friendship and closest intimacy over a period of many years." Here is the living voice of Clemenceau...
...every breath, occupy a room in a rear-line hospital. Another, younger man joins them; some time after this trio has formed its little community, an English prisoner, in the same predicament, is sent to them. The first blind, patriotic hatred of the three slowly turns to tolerance and friendship; a new German-English whisler language is invented. Then, slowly, one of the four grows worse and dies. The others are carried along in the hope of regaining normalcy: one dies after an operation; the Englishman and the younger German finally recover. Word comes that the Englishman has been exchanged...
Such was far from the case. Chancellor Schober did sign a treaty with Prime Minister Mussolini last week, strictly a treaty of friendship and arbitration. He also visited Pope Pius and received the Grand Cordon of the Order of SS. Maurice and Lazarus from King Vittorio Emanuele. His presence in Rome was to thank the Italian Government for lifting the ban on Italian loans to Austria, for Italy's help at The Hague Conference in proving Aus- tria's inability to pay War reparations. It is no secret that both of these favors came in return for Austria...
...with whom he walked the streets of Heidelburg. However, fellow students have fought each other in the past, and the thought of friendly hands across the sea has too often been used to cover a new armament program to arouse boundless enthusiasm now. Personal contact and friendship, if confined to educational circles alone, has not in the past and probably will not in the future shake the foundations of petty and selfish patriotism. Nevertheless, while supposedly enlightened nations are busily engaged in determining the size of future engines of destruction, these voices from Geneva are worthy of recognition...
...Today the public opinion of the world is calling in sober earnest for the security and happiness of national life and for peace and friendship in international relations. Should the London Conference take this tide at its flood its labors will surely be crowned with success. The nations there represented can ill afford once more to disappoint this public demand...