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Sixty-five years ago the fall of Langson to a Chinese army had brought about the fall of a French government. Then it was Premier Jules ("Le Tonkinois") Ferry under attack by fiery Georges Clémenceau. Last week no Clémenceaus were on hand to upset the cabinet of Premier René Pleven. Yet debate over Indo-China at Paris was bitter. Rightist Deputy Edmond Michelet assailed "successive governments" for "an incoherent policy ... As late as Oct. 7 we were told that the Viet Minh forces could not launch a general offensive." Radical Deputy Pierre Mend...
Many a man, including Raymond Poincaré, Woodrow Wilson and Georges Clémenceau, has suffered from enlargement of the prostate gland after middle age. The only known remedy is surgery. In rats prostatic hypertrophy can be produced by stimulating the pituitary gland to overactivity. Dr. McCullagh found that by feeding his inhibin to rats this pituitary hyperfunction could be prevented. He concluded that probably prostatic hypertrophy is caused by 1) breakdown of the testicular cells producing inhibin, the absence of which 2) causes pituitary overactivity, which in turn 3) stimulates the androtin-producing cells of the gonads to sufficient...
...chamber carried Deputy Maurice Sibille to read the official eulogy. Would it pass, or not? The Chamber is notoriously fickle. It refused to cheer Clemenceau on his first appearance after a would-be assassin had wounded him at the time of the peace conference.† But "Tiger" Clémenceau was the antithesis of "Papa" Joffre. The Marshal was in France unquestionably the best beloved hero of the entire War. Last week would even a single deputy refuse to join in laying a harmless wreath of words upon the tomb of JOFFRE? The eulogy ended with this moving appeal...
History may add a line to this quarrel, a line setting forth that Atheist Clémenceau and Catholic Foch kept their differences from exploding at the time, won together the victory of world's greatest grandeur...
Misere. It is Clémenceau's thesis that ever since his hand left the helm French statesmen have been steadily leading their country down the road of misery, throwing away with both hands what he won at Versailles, and simultaneously blaming him for not having won more. Foch, for example, maintained that Clémenceau should have persuaded the Peace Conference to set the eastern frontier of France at the Rhine...