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...Foch greater than Clémenceau? The commission on finance of the Chamber of Deputies lately favorably reported two money bills which seem to answer. The first appropriates 2,500,000 francs for a tomb to Marshal Foch. The second, while recalling that "Clémenceau was the Organizer of Victory and the Savior of France," appropriates for a statue to him 100,000 francs?exactly 1/25 of the sum to be spent on Foch...
Simultaneously in Paris, London and New York last week appeared the book Clémenceau finished a few days before his death (TIME, Dec. 2). He called it Gran-deur et Misere d'une Victoire.* On one of its pages the Tiger growls: "May I be excused for having sought in these remarks the occasion for a homily? . . . Many people would perhaps have preferred anecdotes...
Briand and Borah; Clémenceau, Chesterton and Clemens; Stresemann and Stimson; Poincare and Pershing; Masaryk, Mussolini, MacDonald and Mellon ?they were all of them to be seen last week in the library of Manhattan's fastidious Pynson Printers, most of them in chalk, Mark Twain and Abraham Lincoln in lithograph. Had it not been withdrawn for reproduction on the cover of this issue of TIME, the crayon likeness of Charles Evans Hughes would also have appeared...
...significance struck me however, and for some days after that whenever M. Clémenceau would arrive in the morning, I would say: 'Here comes the "Tiger."' It gradually became a nickname to those of us who loved him, and little by little we always spoke of le patron ('the boss') as Le Tigre...
...Soon the name spread beyond our editorial room and Dollfuss inserted a brief item in the Cri de Paris. It was soon adopted universally. It was a fit name. It indicated the delight M. Clémenceau took in getting his claws into an enemy and holding on while the other writhed in pain...