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Updated: June 19, 2025
M. Clemenceau's words caused a decided sensation among the delegates already in Paris and excited much comment in the press.
M. Clemenceau's opening utterance about the twelve million men, and the unlimited right which such formidable armies confer on their possessors to sit in judgment on the tribes and peoples of the planet, was the true keynote to the Conference. After that the leading statesmen trimmed their ship, touched the rudder, and sailed toward downright absolutism.
The second battle of the Aisne gave rise to that miasma of défaitisme, associated with the names of Bolo and Caillaux, which enfeebled the spirit and effort of France until they were revived by Clémenceau's vigorous stimulants.
Not a regular member of the Council of Ten, he was nevertheless at Clemenceau's elbow, and especially after the attempt on the latter's life, he labored day and night on the details which were too much for the strength and time of the older man. On Clemenceau's right, and half facing him, sat the two American delegates, Wilson and Lansing.
The evening was calm and clear over Montmorency, where there was even grandeur in the stillness. Nature the discreet confident and inexhaustible counsellor, always ready to intermediate between God and man nature was appeasing passion and misery in all bosoms but Felix Clemenceau's, as he strolled in the garden which he did not expect long to possess.
Madame Lesperon, as became a poetess, saw the loveliness of Clemenceau's idea of separation in marrying his cousin and expressed a wish to compliment him face-to-face. Césarine was not so sure that he would come to town to escort her home, he was so engrossed in an important project.
The public somehow never took his conversion to Wilsonianism seriously, neither did his political friends until the League bade fair to become serviceable in his country's hands. M. Clemenceau's acquaintanceship with international politics was at once superior to that of the British Premier and very slender.
Conquests are made by right of the conqueror such was Clemenceau's and Orlando's policy or else the world is ruled on the principles of national justice, as Wilson wished it to be. This ideal, however, will not be attained no ideal is attainable; but it will be brought very much nearer. Might or Right, the one alone can conquer.
Things being as they were in Paris, Clemenceau's temperament, the pressure of French industry and of the newspapers, the real anxiety to make the future safe, and the desire on that account to exterminate the enemy, France naturally demanded, through its representatives, the severest sanctions.
With a European war impending, even a lady will see at once of what value an invention is, like M. Clemenceau's." "In plain language, you are proposing to me an infamous deed!" she exclaimed with scathing irony which failed to scare the other. "I am proposing a matter of business. Where are you going?" "Straight to my husband whose confidence you have imposed on by some deception"
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