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...Paris, Lord Crewe, British Ambassador to France, called at the Quai d'Orsay and was received by Premier Herriot. According to reliable information, the two distinguished statesmen discussed African policy...
Today, including the above elections, there are 37 members, among the most important of whom are: Litterateurs: Joseph Bédier, Paul Bourget, Marcel Prevost, Henri de Regnier; Statesmen: Louis Barthou, Georges Clemenceau, Raymond Poincaré, Jules Cambon; Soldiers: Les Maréchals Ferdinand Foch, Joseph Joffre, Louis Lyautey; Artists: Albert Besnard (the only one) ; Journalist: Georges Lecomte; Educator: Emile Picard...
your universities. Witness the amount of space which your American statesmen, your political parties, and your economic conditions receive in our daily newspapers. You Americans are the ones who must awaken to this new status of world affairs, you must accord us some understanding, some sympathy and goodwill...
...Woodrow Wilson separated the two statesmen. Then Clemenceau offered Lloyd George satisfaction either with swords or pistols?as soon as Lloyd George had resided in France lout; enough to acquire a domicile there...
...Street, which was "sooner or later crossed by everybody who possessed real quality"-the threshold of Henry Adams, sardonic New Englander, connoisseur of life and all its arts, a man who said of himself: ". . . as far as he had a function, it was as stable-companion to statesmen, whether they liked it or not." Over the Adams threshold daily came John Hay, "the roving diplomat," Secretary of State to Presidents McKinley and Roosevelt, Adams' great friend. Here came Clarence King, a professional geologist of rare spirit, who "knew more than Adams did of art and poetry . . . knew America west...