Zurich Herald, 1930-01-09, Page 3e
Iennenceau, Foe of Pessimists,
Feared End of France Was Near,
Says War Council Interpreter
"Oulu Duty Was to Die Well, and First to Fight as if We Were
Sure of Conquering," Tiger Quoted by Confidant;
Premier at First Preferred Petain to Foch.
as Generalissimo, Says Second Writer
Ot the many alipreeiatioais of Clemenceau every :clay, arguing .and
Georges Clemeneeau appearing in the struggling, with as mtwh courtesy as
Maris press just after his death none firrnness•=even days when, scarcely
was more interesting than the article out of tb.e hall, his impatience flash -
written for "Le Journal" by Captain ed up in picturesque ebullitions.. His
Pani J. Mautoux, the brilliant chief foreign interlocii ors — after some
interpreter at the Allied Supreme shocks of astonishment— had learned
War 'Couheil and at the Paris Peace to respect and like him. " Lloyd
€ onfereece. Captain Mantoux aston- George, hearing of the result of the
ished all who came in contact with preliminary vote which denied to M.
him in his official capacity by his Clomellceau the. Presidency of the re-
wonderful command of languages public, exclaimed: .
and his uncanny ability to reproduce "'They will no longer reproach the
in various tongues, svlthout the least English for burning Jeanne cl'Arci'
hesitation, long anal complicated "Certain people blame him for not
statements made by statesmen and having very much eonflclelice in the
generals. Before the war he lectured futuree which he could envisage only
un French history at the University of in the image of the past. That was
London. the natural consequence not only of
He was intimately associated with his age, but of his fundamental Des-
Clemenceau on the War Council and simism.
during the peace negotiations re-
ceived his personal confidences and
was in a highly favorable position to
judge his character as a man and as
a war leader. His article contained
sayings of Clemenceau hitherto un-
published and emphasized the para-
dox that the man who ruthlessly
stamped out defeatism and pessi-
mism in France in 1917 was himself
temperamentally and fundamentally
a pessimist.
Demanded Miracle, and Got lt.
Captain Mantoux wrote:
"I saw his will triumph over ob-
stacles which appeared to be insur-
mountable. At the moment when the
arrival of the American troops in
masses hacl become a vital necessity
for the Allies, tonnage was lacking
to transport them. Fifty thousand
came in January, 40,000 in February.
Foch demanded 140,000 a month. And
in the meantime the German armies,
freed from pressure on the side of
Russia, broke the British lines at
Saint -Quentin.
"In an inter _Allied council held aur -
lug these sombre days they counted
up the ships available, weighed the
immense needs to be satisfied and ar-
rived at agures Which caused despair.
M. Clemenceau then said:
"'We need 300,000 Americans a
^:month. You tell me that we have ton-
nage enough for only 100,000. Iu ans-
wer that we must not calculate the
'member of men to be transported by
the tonnage, but that we must calcu-
late the tonnage by the numbet bf his politics. Be he was a man of
men to be carried—and we shall lied heart and one who loved Ids country,'
it,'
"Before the conference opened he
used to talk of the difficulties of mak-
ing a good peace:
"'To snake war — that 'is easy
enough, All that is needed is men,
money and material the country will
furnish rather than perish. You need
only to give orders and not to lose
your head. But to make peace, and
especially to practice it, it very diffi-
cult and very complicated. The
French know well enough how to
die for their country. Will they
know how to live for it?'
"And he added:
"'What strikes me, when I look in
our streets at the trophies of Louis
XIV and Napoleon, is that the former
represents the Peace of Utrecht and
the latter two invasions, 'Waterloo
anti: Vienna. When will our country,
happier than Hannibal, know how to
profit from victory?'
"This Frenchmau, in whom shone
so conspicuously two master quali-
ties of our people, love'.l France pas-
sionately. He loved it as did the
great patriots of the Revolution,
whom he had worshiped in his youth.
I see him now showing a caller at
the War Ministry a chassepot with
its antique bayonet:
"'This gun,' he said, 'belonged to
one of the men who hated me most
and whom I hated most in return.
We even fought a cruel. It is the
gun which. Deroulede carried in 15.70.
His sister brought it t', me as a
souvenir of him on Armistice Day.
I have not changed my opinion about
to the efforts of our English allies, to ,=al, Clemenceau was that and more.
economies and sacrifices, 2,000,000 This misanthrope and this'ironist
Americans were landed in Prance carnated, in tale gravest hours, the
`Fie demanded a miracle, and the Called Misanthrope and L•onist
"'I see but one man who can save
ts,• It Is Foch.
"Theft the meeting ; was held at
which Poch received his full powers.
"iII', Lloyd George declares that on
this occasion 1 . Clemenceau's :role
was negative, What does lie know
about it? ale was not there. The
head of the British delegation was
Lord Milner. Now the latter has
told in detail what happened; and he
Pays e brilliant tribute to M,
nsenceau,
'M, Clemenceau, after he had re-
oogiilaed lit Foch the predestined
man, who ought to snatch vietory out
of a desperate situation, pushed him
forward with diplomacy, but also
with obstinate and untiring persist-
ence.
"There is something more.
Spoke In Defense of Foch
"At the enol of May we suffered the
hard blow on the Chemin-des-Dames.
French. opinion became suspicious of
reale Parliament demanded an in-
vestigation and action. What did 'M,
Clemenceau do? It was the session:
of the Chanther of Deputies on amus-
e, 1915. He mounted the tribune and
said: •
"'Nothing has happened which per-
mits inc to exercise any discipline
against anybody. If it is necessary,
in order to obtain the approbation of
certain people who judge hastily, .to%
abandon chiefs who have deserved.
well of their couutry, it is an act of
cowardice of which I am incapable,
Do not expect me to commit le. Chase
me from the tribune if that is what
you wish.'
"Foch was saved. Four months
later, on October 2, M. Lloyd George
sent the Marshal 'sincere felicita-
tions' on the latter's birthday. Foch
answered: 'I am greatly touched, etc.
I shall never forget that it was to
your insistence that I owe the post
which I hold to -day.'
"That was the Marshal's thanks to
M. Clemenceau."„
THOUSINDS OF MOTHERS
within a few months.
auce.
"He was always inaccessible to Another writer, M, Jean Mar'tet, of -
fear and his moral courage was equal fered—also in "Le Journal"'—souse
to his physical courage. Danger ouly new information about the relations
strengthened his resolution, and his between Clemenceau aucl Foch—re-
energy had. no need of the stimulant rations which will, perhaps, always
of hope; for this man who treated • remain a 'subject of controversy
pessimism in time of war as a crime among historians. Replying to Lloyd
NV LIS himself a pessimist, though hi a George's charge that Clemenceau had
special sease of the word. He was
is pessimist in the philosophic sense.
"Apart from afew faithful friends,
• he despised men; or, rather, he des-
pised human nature. He was far from
believing in an imminent justice
which cannot fail to triumph; but be
was ready to fight for it as if he were
certain of success. In the carriage
which was taking us to Versailles,
where they were to discuss the terms
of the armistice, at the Moment that
victory was bringiug his career to a
prodigious climax,- he said to nie:
"'When the war broke out—and I
had seed it coming for several years
—I said to myself tha, it meant, per-
haps; the end of our country. After
so many ceuturies of a great history,
our duty was to die well, and, first,
to fight as if we were sure of conquer-
ing.'
Criticized for Unsatisfactory Peace
ihp.ve reproached liim for
malting an' unsatisfactory peace, af-
ter having made a victoriousawar. He
did not make peace single-handed:
The error of the French people is in
forgetting iron- many opinions anci'iti
torests had to be conciliated before
little to do with the movement to
make Foch generalissimo of the Al-
lied forces,he said:
"The truth is that M. Clemenceau
always had a higher esteem for Pe-
tain's personality than for T'gch's. Up
to March 26, 1918, it is manifest that
he saw in Petain the great chief of
the French armies and the' man
through whom, sooner or later, vic-
tory would carne, He was slowly
preparing for the realization of the
single command, and I believe that
if the events of March 26 had not
been produced, if there had been no
Doullens, which was, perhaps, the
most decisive "clay of the war, Petain
would have been charged with 'co -
evaluation of the Allied armies on
the western front.'
Took Up Foch After Doullens
"But Doullens came along, and on
that day Petain, an intelligence grave
and sombre,' took acdount exactly,
alas, of the diffidult'ies of the • task.
Foch, on his sitlee'was Foch; that is
to say, as M. CPeliienceau told me, ,a
man raging to fight.' •
"And immediately M. Cleinenceau
reaching a conclusion, 1 saw M. thought, and said:
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LUCK
I am constautly running lute a cer-
tain type of man who is wasting his
life looking for a chance to make a
quick "klling."
The minds of these men are filled
with fairy tales of other. risen. who
have painted navy beans one clay and
harvested gold pieces the next morn-
ing.
having convinced themselves' that
these Stories are true the poor dupes
become as restless as bird dogs and
spend their lives chasing from one
job to another accomplishing nothing
for themselves or their employers.
Facts forbid a denial of the part
luck plays in the lives of all of us.
In every lottery one ticket mist win.
But to spend one's life waiting for
the favor of luck is as foolish as sit-
ting by the roadside hoping to be
picked up by a motorist when one
might as well be on ones way afoot.—
If you want to get somewhere start
now.
Honesty and sincerity of purpose
are obvious in the man who is using
his legs. We are not so sure of the
man who waits for a lift.
I favor the man who uses his wits
who twists circumstances to his ad-
vantage.., Such a man will go far,
provided he is not afraid to walk be-
tween lifts.
'But when he gets it into his head
that only fools walk he is in danger
of losing the respect of those who
have it in their power to help him,
and he will soon find that his friends
step on the gas and look the other
way as they ay by.
*4*
A MAN
"A man that's clean inside and out-
side, 'who neither Iooks up to the rich
nor clown to the poor, who can lose
without squealing and can win with-
out bragging; who is. considerate to
Women, children and old persons,
who is too brave to lie, too generous
to cheat and too sensible to loaf; and
who takes his share of the world's
goods and lets other people have
theirs—that is my idea of a true gen-
tlenian,
EXAGGERATION
There is no subject in the world,
however true, holy, and necessary it
may be to retain in its integrity,
about which we do not talk a great
deal of nonsense. Humanity has the
faculty of exaggeration toan mime
molls silent; and refined gold is
gilded and lilies are painted in spite
of Shakespeare,
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ORIGINALITY
True greatness of mind is never
egotistic or solitary. It is the power
to enter into the thought and lives of
others, and draw upon the experience
of mankind for strength and wisdom.
Its originality is not in thinking and
saylug what no one else thinks or
says, but in gathering from all men
and elements of 'vi -hat is at once new
and old. A Goethe and a Shake-
speare are decried for having taken
from the whole body of existing
literature and art for their own work,
as Runlet they were called upon to
be like spiders, which spin all from
-:heir own inwards. It is the token of
their preeminence that all things
ministered to their wants, and that
what other men saw in part or on
the .surface they saw whole and with
deeper vision. Who reads the auth-
ors they are charged with having
wouldthese
coied. What chance
P i ' a
have. had to be remembered, if not
by having served the needs of men of
the first order of mind? The origin-
ality of such minds is in their power
to enter into the mind of their time
and of their race, anti to gather from
all quarters the materials of fresh
creations.
Will Gibraltar
Remain British?
Proposed Construction of
Straits Tunnel Raises Ques.
tion of Exchange With
Spain
This is an age of cool discus;;ion of
things which twenty years ago would
have seemed outrageous merely in the
notion. For instance, what about
Fngland's giving up Gibraltar? The
popular notion has been for long
enough that Gibraltar, the Suez Canal
and. Aden were three strategic points
in the umpire which would be the very
last to go in a crisis and here we have
no less an authority than the Madrid
correspondent of the London Times
calmly envisaging the possibility of shake of tomato ketchup, Do not
exchanging the Rock for other Span- season the ingredients as they will be
ish territory, The question has been tasty enough without this aid.
brought up over the imminent con- A tin of crayfish will supply fill-
struction of a tunnel frons Spain to 'ings for another set of sandwiches.
Africa,
"The beginning of a tunnel," writes
the correspondent, "has been bored on
the Spanish coast near Tarifa, about
fifteen miles ~vest of the Rock of Gib-
raltar, It is the exploration shaft of
the scheme for tunnelling under the
Straits of Gibraltar. Next month a
similar shaft will be sunk in Morocco,
and all sorts of experiments will be
made in the hope of discovering what
the soil beneath the narrow inter-
continental . stretch of sea is like and
whether it is suitable for a tunnel.
"Many political, military, naval, and
legal problems would assume a new
aspect with the existence of a Straits
tunnel. For instance, should the tun-
nel be internationalized in accordance
with the hopeful tenancy of modern
international juri,iprudence toward
making all great trade passages acces-
sible to all nations? Here would be
a promising piece of property for the
League of Nations. If Spainbuilds
the tunnel, she will want to keep it in
her own hands.; and there is nothing
—in the opinion. of the 'Spaniard to
prevent her getting from the Caliph
of her Moroccan Protectorate the nec-
essary concessions for this purpose.
But the tunnel would in fact be under
the guns of Gibraltar, and its African
mouth so near to Tangier that the
fate of that much dis euted city would
be directly involved,
"France is getting ready to build a
trans -Saharan railway and to develop
rapid communications between Oran,
Algiers, and the ports of the Gulf of
Lyons with a view to military trans-
port in case of a future war. If she
could arrange with Spain to use a
Straits tunnel for her troops, it would
be extremely valuable to her.
"For Spain there is one more issue.
Gibraltar, they hold, is out of date as
a fortress, and it could easily be de-
stroyed by the normal army of a na-
tion M 22,000,000 inhaibtants. Should
the tunnel come to be built, Gibraltar
might remain a .commercial establish-
ment under the Spanish flag in which
British interests would be safeguard-
ed, and Spain might offer in exchange
as a military post the island of Al-
boran and the Chafarinas. Alboran,
comparable to eligoland, is twenty-
nine miles north and four degrees west
of the Cape
of Tres Forces
in Spanish
Lorocco, and forty-seven utiles distant
from the coast of Spain. The three
Chafarinae are a couple of miles
north of Cabo de Ague, near Melilla.
Undoubtedly these positions together,
preperly armed and fitted out, would
make a military base of the first order.
"Colonel Jevenois, a distinguished
Spanish engineer, and secretary of the
canvnittee at present consir Bring the
Possibilities of the tunnel, says that he
makes the above suggestion entirely shine mare brightly in life than the
on his own account, in the belief that deeds of renonvn which ►v i think of as
England would gain by obtaining an alone malting a life great."
incomparably better naval and air
base. But when he speaks o£'Gibral-
tar in the following words he is speak-
ing as a true Spaniard: 'In this man-
lier would disappear for ever the sole
existing cause of friction between
EngTand and ° Spain, the 'often unob-
trusive but never.forgotrsen obstacle to
an imperishable friendship between
the two nations.' Gibraltar in foreign
hands is, and always will be, a thorn
in the heart of Siiair'."
o"The chariot of peace cannot ad-
vance along a rail cluttered 'with
cannon."—David Lloyd George.
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Luscious Sandwich
The buffet supper, for young and
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Savory Sandwiches
Chop up some mustard -and -cress,
shied some cheese and mix the two.
Put a light sprinkling of this idling
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•
'Weary Willie—"Can't you assist
me, sir? I belong to the vast army
of the unemployed."
11Tr. Hardman—"Then you'd better
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New Zealand's London .
Commissioner Resigns
London.—New Zealand's High Com-
missioner in London, Sir James Parr,
is leaving his post to take up work in
Behalf of the movement for free trade
within the empire.
Sir Janes, a native of New Zealand,
has been High Commissioner here for
three years:' He held various positions
in the New Zealarxl.Cabinet front 1920
to 1926, and has sindb'represented his
dominion in the League of Nations,: in
the course of his duties as High Com-
missioner here.
!jailing H•alr—Just 'try Minard's. •
MISTAKEN IDEAS
It is falling in love with our own
mistaken ideas that makes fools and
beggars of half mankind.—E, Young.
14 is a little astonishing that it
should be so much safer, at the pre-
sent day, to kill a man with a motor
ear than 'with any other instrment."
--.Robert Lynch.
"Riches and education are in con
filet with each other."—Aletander
vie
iklejolln,
Shred the ash finely and let it soak
for a few minutes in some salad
cream, which you have thinned with.
a little vinegar. Drain the fish well,
then frit a generous portion into each
sandwich.. This filling is particularly
good with brown bread.
The commonplace forcemeat can
be used as a basis for a. very tasty
filling. Take the young, crisp hearts
of celery heads, see that they are e
very clean, then chop them finely and
inix with the' forcemeat, It you can
manage to make the sandwiches only
a short while before they will he eat-
en, pour a little melted butter on to
the filling, and then wait for envious
mothers to ask you the secret of this
delicious concoction,
The remains of poultry or game
(detached from all bones) can be
minced finely and mixed with chop-
ped cooked beetroot. A touch of add-
ed flavor is given by a smearing of
French mustard,
Sweet Fillings
Mixed fruit salad, drained from its
juice and chopped finely. A generous
application to the bread of rich cream
and then a portion of the fruit, with
a dusting 01 finely -grated cocoanut on
the' top of all. The juice from the
fruit will turn commonplace lemon-
ade into nectar.
Chop some brazil nuts very finely,
soak in rai.- , wine. Use brown
bread, applying a little raspberry jam
before filling with the soaked nuts.
Preserved ginger, sliced very thin-
ly an dsprinkled with castor sugar—
with a drop or two of lemon. juice—
makes another new and excellent fill-
ing, and again brown bread is best.
IDEAS
Ideas are often poor ghosts; our
sun -filled eyes cannot discern them;
they pass athwart us in their vapor,
and cannot make themselves felt;
But sometimes they are made fresh;
they breathe upon us with warm
breath, they touch us with soft res-
ponsive hands, they Iook at us with
sad sincere eyes, and speak to us fa
appealing tones; they are clothed in
a living human soul, with all its con-
flicts, its' faith, and its love. Then
their presence is a power, then they
shake us like a passion, and we are
drawn atter them with gentle compul-
sion, as flame is drawn to flame, --
George Eliot.
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