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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Few U. S. citizens realize that he went out of office in 1909, that he was not Prime Minister of France during the first three years of the war. As editor of L'Homme Libre and, when that was suppressed, of L'Homme Enchaine, he preached such deathless, rampant patriotism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Clemenceau | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

Catholic v. Atheist. Ferdinand Foch and Georges Clemenceau: Devout Catholic and fiery Atheist. They had to clash. They could win the War without coming to an actual break, but not the Peace. Which was right? Foch will always get his due as Conqueror. Hear Clemenceau: "We disagreed entirely on the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Clemenceau | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

Equally egoistic was the funeral which Clemenceau demanded from France last week and which she humbly gave. "He asked that there be no state funeral," said Prime Minister Tardieu, "I need not say there will be none." In every French garrison, on every warship, in every French colony, cannon banged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Clemenceau | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

Part of the Bukharin heresy consisted in doubting that Dictator Josef Stalin can put through on time his 33-billion-dollar Pyatiletka ("Five Year Plan for Economic Development") (TIME, June 18, 1928, et seq.}. Last week Pravda blared: "The five year plan! . . . We will put it through in three years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Bukharin Falls | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

Every day in Vienna men and women gather in groups of 50 at the house of an uncouth old fellow who dresses like a farmer. Standing respectfully in a circle, they strip to the waist, permit him to approach and stroke them with the tip of an "electric pencil." It...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Pencil Man | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

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