Word: menceau
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Architect Warren scoffed at the idea of Clémenceau as an enfeebled old man: "The newspapers are always trying to write obituaries of really great men before their deaths. Who has not heard rumors that Mussolini is a pale spectre of himself, burnt out by overwork? I visited him three weeks ago in Rome, and found him not at all the feeble man tottering into the grave that I had been led to expect. . . . He looks fit, mentally and physically...
...same with Clémenceau. The newspapers speak of him as old and decrepit. . . . On the contrary, in my opinion, he is the one man alive today who is capable of handling the big job of Dictator of France...
American students of French politics wondered if the times had indeed fallen so far out of joint that Clémenceau must turn back from the brink of the tomb to set France right. In a mood of whimsy, they recalled a few of the stray threads that tie up the life and personality of Clémenceau with the U. S. For example, the events of his long and incredibly active political career fall between two visits to the town of Stamford, Conn...
Young Dr. Georges Clémenceau laid the foundations of his political power in the 70's by attending gratuitously an immense practice among the poor of Paris, especially of Montmartre. With the votes of this ultra-radical constituency behind him, he worked his way up into a commanding position among the leaders of the Left, as the Third Republic got under...
Amid all this effort the strange case of Dreyfus, a Jewish Captain in the French Army, an alleged German spy, caught and fired the imagination of Clémenceau and Zola. Together they launched an attack upon the corrupt court martial which had convicted Dreyfus. The attack swelled into a national and then an international scandal the repercussions of which are still felt in France...