Word: menceau
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President of France that year was a man named Fallières. The premier was a young man of 67 named Georges Clémenceau...
Opposite this entrance, ranged like a football crowd on the tiers of a stadium, beneath a classic portico and around a towering monument of Winged Victory, stand the leaders of the French nation-Marshal Joffre in the centre, "Tiger" Clémenceau, arms crossed, four-square with hands behind his back, with Marshal Foch close by, brooding alone at one side; President Poincaré, expectant, surrounded by frock-coated colleagues...
...strenuous visit to the U. S. On seeing the Statue of Liberty he remarked: "Is that all the liberty you have?" This was taken as a joke, but nine years later he said: "Nowhere is social liberty less in evidence. ..." A 40-year friendship with Georges Clémenceau was broken during the War, when Critic Brandes was accused of lack of sympathy for the Allies. In 1921 he declared that Europe was finished and American domination of the world had begun. A man without a church* he wrote "Jesus: A Myth" in 1925 (TIME, Sept. 20). Died. Elbridge Thomas...
...Some fine morning La France will awake to find that old Clémenceau has been in his grave for a fortnight...
...Senators wrung his hand: "La France will mourn you long, M. Clémenceau. As her most gallant champion, have you the heart to abandon her thus in the night...