Word: menceau
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Three events focused the attention of thoughtful Americans last week upon the aged "Tiger" of France, M. Georges Eugène Benjamin Adrien Clémenceau, now in his 84th year...
...week, of Senator Felix Jules Meline, 87, dean of French Parliamentarians, Premier during the period of the famed Dreyfus scandal, known as "The McKinley of France" on account of his indefatigable championship of the protective tariff. The passing of M. Meline, it was observed, leaves M. Clémenceau as practically the sole survivor of the group of great French statesmen who were in at the death of the Second Empire and waited as youthful accoucheurs upon the birth of the Third Republic...
Secondly, the French press has continued ever more loudly to clamor for a Dictator, to bring order out of the present politico-fiscal chaos in France. More and more often the name of Clémenceau has been linked by editorial writers with the "one strong man" whom they demanded...
...third development, more than passing interest attached to the arrival at Manhattan of the famed U. S. architect, Whitney Warren, who announced that he had recently spent some hours at a luncheon, tete a tete with his friend Clémenceau. Mr. Warren declared roundly that he had never seen M. Clémenceau in better health and spirits or more fully in touch with the current situation in France. The famed whiskers may droop like the tusks of an old walrus, but between them the decisive jaw continues to snap with the fierce pugnacity of a bulldog...
...Dreyfus case. In politics he is violently anticlerical, but is said to have too much ingenuousness in his character to make a good politician. Early in the War he was Minister of War under Premier Ribot. It is from about this time that his enmity for Clémenceau dates. Previously they were good if not cordial friends...