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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Blyth Standard, 1930-01-09, Page 71— lemenceau, Foe of Pessimists,h which Lodt received „,I wee but "`'° »,n" who can Bare i15, It Is Pooh.' Feared End of France Was Near,en the ' cevedhis full powers. Nt'as held at "Then "AI I ioY'd George declares that ou Says War Council Interpreter this o)caBiOn M, Clenencean'a i:ele was negative What does be know about. !1.? Ito was not there, The "Our Duty Was to Die Well, and First to Fight as if We \Vere 1101,1 of the Ilrtllsh aelegta tee way Sure of Conquering," Tiger Quoted by Confidant; Premier at First Preferred Petain to Foch as Generalissimo, Says Second Writer Of the many appreciations of Clentenceau every day, arguing and Georges Clemenceal appearing in the struggling, with 118 much courtesy as Parte press lust niter his death none firmness—even days when, scarcely was more interesting than the article out of the hall, his impatience flash - written for "Lo Journal" by Capfain ed 11p in picturesque ebullitions. Ills Paul J. Mantoux, the brilliant chief foreign i0100l8001008 — niter some Interpreter nt the Allied Supreme shocks of astonishment— had learned War Council and at the Paris Peace to respect and like him, Lloyd Conference, Captain Mantoux nston- George, hearing of the result ,of the fished tell who came in contact with preliminary vote which denied to AI, him in his official capacity by his Clelueuce01) the Presidency of the re - wonderful command of languages piddle, exclaimed; and his uncanny ability to reproduce "'They will no longer reproach the in various tongues, without the least l7uglish for burning Jeanne d'Arc!' hesitation, long and complicated. "Certain people Winne him for not statements Ipade by statesmen anti having very much confidence in the generals. Belpre the war he lectured future, which ho could envisage only of French history at the University of 10 the Image of the past, That was Loudon, the natural mm801180000 not only of Ile was intimately associated with his age, but of his fundamental pes- Clentenceau on the \V'nr Council anis xhvi during the peace negotiations re- ceived his personal confidences and was in n highly favorable position to Judge his character as a man and as a war leader. fIis article contained saylugs of Clemenceau hitherto en. 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 R. Captain Mantoux wrote: "I saw 1l,e will triumph 0001' ob- stacles wlticlt appeared to be insur- mountable, At the moment when the arrival of the American troops in masses had become a vital necessity for the Allies, tonnage Was lalling to transport them. Fifty thousand Lord Milner. Now rho latter bas told in detnll what happened; and he pays a brilliant tribute to M. Cle• menc001(, 'M. Clemmu:eau, after he had re- cognized in Foch the ((0destiee)1 amu, who ought to 011ate11 victm•y out of a desperete situation, imbed him forward with diplomacy, but 0500 with obstinate and untiring persist- ence, "'There is something more. Spoke in Defense of Foch "At the end of May we suffered.the hard blow on the Chemin-deallames. p'rencll opinion became suspicions of Foch. Parliament demanded an in• veetigatiou and action, What did M. Clemenceau do? It 10110 Ole session of the Chamber of Deputies 101 June 4, 1919. IIe mounted the tribune and said: "'Nothing has happened which per- mits rete 0) exereis0 any discipline x111. against anybody. If it S0.-nocessnry, "Before the conference opened he in order to obtain tine approbation of need to talk of the difficulties of mak- certain people who judge hastily, to Ing a good peace: abandon chiefs who have deserved "'To make tea0 — that Is easy enough. All that is needed Is sten, money lulu material the country will furnish rather than perish. You need only to give orders and not to loan your head, But to mance peace, 1511)1 especially to 90001(ce it, It vary diffi- cult anis very complicated. The Prowl) know well enough how to die" for their country, Will they know how to live for It?' , "And ho added: "'What strikes me, when I look in our streets at the trophies of Louis XIV and Napoleon, Is that the former Al, Clemenceau:" represents We Peace of Utrecht and Qjj p (�, _ the latter two dnwillls0 Waterloo Ill VU hNDl OF I1 1'llERS and Vienna. When will our couufry, II � f S j rxmo In Jnunnry, 10,000 in Februay, ]sappier than Hannibal, know how' to (0ch de0111,1le1 140,000 a, 11101101. And profit Prom victory'?' „This Eeenehman in whom shone in the meantime the German armies, ° so- conspicuously inS L1101151master v Uva uah- i'reed from Pressure on the Bade of pq ties of our people, ]ore's France Pas- Rnssia, broke the British (lues at (0000(0130 110 100ed It as (101 the Suint -Quentin, great patriots of the Revolution, "In an inter•Allfed council held dun- whom he had worshiped In ifs youth.fug these sombre days they comped d see him 110w showing a caller tel well, of their country, it 10 an act of cowardice of Which 1 am Incapable. Do not expect me to commit 1,. Chase me from the tribune if that is whet you wish.' "Foch was caved. Four months later, on October 2, M, Lloyd George sett the Marshal '0(011000 felirita- tfotts' on the latter''s birthday. Poch answered: 'i Un greatly touched, etc. I shall never forget that it 011)0 to your Insistence that I owe the post which I hold to -day.' "That was the Marshal's thanks to tap the ships available, weighed the the War Ministry ti chO000901 101111 Immense needs to be satisfied and an. its antique bayonet: rived at figures which caused despair. „Phis 0(111,' he said, 'belonged to AI, (Ilemenceau then said: one of the mel who hated me most "'1Pe need 300,000 Amerleaus n and whom I hated most h1 return. month. You tell tae that we have ton Ree uvea fought n duel. It is the nage enough for only 100,000, In ons gnu which 11m'onlo4e carried in 1070. w•el' that we must not calculate the His sister brought it to the as a windier of men to be transported by souvenir of 111111 101 Armistice Day, ho tonnage, hut that we must ohne I have not changed my ripinlen about mothers ofmou1ng 0110(181 as 1 know' late the tonnage by rho nuulher of , his polfltcs. 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Danger only streeglbened his resolution, and his energy had no need of the stimulant of hope; for tints nen who treated 98001nil01n in time of war 0B a crime was himself a pessimist, though h1 a special sense of the word. lle was a pessimist in the philosop111c sense, "Apart from a fey faithful friends, he despised men; or, rather, he des- pised hinnal nature. Ile was far fres USE NO OHM MEDICINE After the bIIIkof my baba 1 Canadian mothers are noted for the care they give their little ones— the 11011th of the baby is most jeal- ously guarded and the mother is al- ways 101 rho lookout for a remedy which is efficient aur at the same t.inte-abscletely safe, Tho)stnnd0 of mothers have found such a remedy in Baby's Own 'Tablets anti limey of them use nothing else for the ail- ments of their little ones, Among them Is Mrs Howard Ring, of Truro, N.S., who Says -'I eon strongly re- commend T nit's (1 v n Tablets 10 Another writer, Al. 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Will Gibraltar Remain British? Proposed Construction of Straits 'funnel Raises Ques- tion of Exchange With Spain This is an age et cull disrtts;ion of • things which t(00)1(y years 05(0 would have ;treed outrageous neer:), in aha notion, For instance, whet about 1-aglai d's giving up Gibraltar? '.L'he popu5U' notion has been for long enough that Gibraltar, the Sttez Canal and Aden were theme strategic points in the 'Empire which would be the very Met to go in a crisis: mrd here we Have 00 less an authority than the Madrid correspondent of the sT,mlclon Times '2(101ly envisaging the possibility of exchanging the stock for other Span- ish territory, The question has been brought up over the imminent cnn- struetiml of a tunnel from Spain to Africa, "The beginning of a tunnel," writes the correspondent, "has been honed on the Spanish coast Hear Tarifa, about' •fifteen miles west of the Rock ot Gib- raltar. It is the exploration shaft of tine scheme for tunnelling under the Straits of Gibraltar. Next mouth 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 suitably- for a tunnel, "Malty political, military, naval, and legal problems would assume a new aspect with the existence of a Straits tunnel. For instance, should the tun- s,se mel he internationalized in accordance with the hopeful (011,1 ney of modern interenlfonlil (urieprudence toward slaking all great trade passages acces- sible to all nations? Isere would be a promising piece of property for the League of Nations. 1f. Spain builds 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 tu1tel would in fact beu oder the guns of Gibraltar, slut its African sleuth so near to Tangier that the fate of that much disputed city w'ouid ORIGINALITYbe directly involved. - True greatness of mind le never "Ihaoeo is gelling read,v to build a egotistic It is the "we' trans-Saharan railway and to develop or 100500 to enter into the thought and lives of rapid connnun10011 115 betwzeu (bran, r others, and draw upon 1110 experience0 Algiers, and the nets of the Gulf of of mankind for strength and wietion, LyonS1111%011'1' with a view to military trans- its ovigivahty is not in thinking amt pot in cause of 0 fnturo tear. If sh0 saying what no one else llnluks or mum arrange with Spain to use a says, but h1 gntherhrg from all men Straits e1yl for her troops, it would be extremely valuable to her, and elements of what is at once new "Por Spain thei'e is one more issue. and old. A teethe and a Shake- Gibraltar, they hold, 10 out of date as spare are 11000811 fel' having (alien a fortress, and 11 could easily be de. - from llle 0111010 holy of eslsthng stroyed by the normal army of a na- 111001 tare and art for lIieh' owe wm'le, tier asp 22,000,000 inhaibtaits. Should as though they we1e 0alleid upon to the tunnel cone to be built, Gibraltar b'© uho Sidders, which spin all from might "(arms a commercial establisll- Weli' own invrards; It is thu token merit under the Spanish flag in which their 111'eerilfllelee that all tinSngset British interests would be safeguard- merit to their wants, 1111 that ud, and Spain might offer in exchange what outer mel en NV 111 pint 00 ou 00 tt military post the island of ll - the surface they saw whole and with borate std the Chafarinas. A1bo'an, deeper vision. Who reads the anal- comparable to eligoio:d, is twenty, ors ahoy aro charged with having nine miles north .and four degrees west of the Cape of. Tres Forces in Spanish Loroeco; and forty-seven miles distant from the coast of Spain. The three Chafarinns are a couple of utiles north of Cabo de Agua, neat' Melilla, Undoubtedly these positions together, properly armed and fitted 0111, would PEP BGA %Milliunts' PINK PILLS u4l uesolD 1(501 eN t. col,T,II. 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Shred the fish finely and let it Beale for a few minutes in 00100 salad areas, W11 1011 3'015 have thinned with a little vinegar, Dr01n the fish well, Wen put a generous portion into each sandwich, 'Phis filling Is particularly good with brown bread. Tho commonplace (00(1010001 can he used us a basis for a very tasty filling. Take the young, crisp hearts of celery mends, see that they are very clean, then 11109 them finely and mix with the foreemoa.1, if you can , manage to mala the saudwichee only a short while before they will be eat - 011, poo' a little melted batter on to the filling, and then craft for envious mothers to ask you the 0001'01 of tilts delicious concoction, 'fine eelnal00 of poultry Or gams ((letached frons all bones) can be minced finely 10111 mixed with eliop' 1)00 rooked beetroot. A touch of add- ed flavor is given by a smearing of French mustard, Sweet Fillings "'Pio truth is that Af, Clemeucetuh these stories age true the poor dopes become 00 restless as hied dogs and spend (11011 lives ehesiug from one Job to another 110coilphshing nothing far themselves or their employes:. Facts 'lolbld'a.'denial of the pant luck plays In the lives of all of us. In every lottery one ticket must win, But to spend one's life waiting for the favor of luck is as foolish as sit- tHeg by the roadside hoping to be picked 1111 by a motorist when one might as well he on one's way afoot.— lt you want to get somewhere start 110w-, I -I0100(3' and sincerity of 91109000 are olivioes in the man w110 is using his legs, We are not so sure of the mal who waits for a Lift, I favor the 001 w'110 0000 itis wits who Uviste circunmstancca to his ad- vantage, Such a man Neill go far, provided Ito is not afraid to walk be- tween lifts. But when 11e gets it foto his stead that only fools want he is in danger of losing the respect ot those who llavo it in their power to help him, and he will soon find that his friends step on the gas and look We other way as they fly by. A MAN believing in an imminent Justice always had a higher esteem fon' Pe- believing cannot fail to triumph' but he tahn's personality than for Poch's, Bp to Match 26, 1918, it is manifest that lie sew in Petain the great chief of the French armies and the lean tiu'ongls whom, 000110' 02' later, vic- tory would cone. He Was slowly Preparing for the realization of the single command, and I believe that if the events of March 26 had not been protlnced, if there had been no Doullens, which was, perhaps, the most decisive il'ty of rho war, Petain would have been charged with 'co- ordination of the Allied armies on the western front: Took Up Foch After Doullens "But Doullens came along, and of that day I'etain, an Intelligence grave and sombre, took account exactly, alas, of 1ho difficulties of the -taste. Foch, on his side, was Foch; that 10 Che e'ror of the French people is in to say, as M. Clemencesn told me, ,a forgetting how many opinions and in- man raging to fight' terests had to be (=ciliated before "And immediately Af, Clemencealt reaching a conclusion. 1 01110 AI, thought, and said: was ready to fight for it as if ho were certain of success, In the carriage which 1000 tailing us to Versailles, where they were to discuss the terms or the armistice, at the moment that victory was bringing his career to a prodigious climax, he said to me: "'When the war broke out—and I had seen it corning for several years --I said to myself the: it 11100111, per- haps, the end of our country, After so many oenturioa of a great 11101017, our duty was to die well, and, first, to fight as if we were sure of congner- ing,' Criticized for Unsatisfactory Peace "They bare 109000clletl Hint for making an unsatisfactory 1)0050, ot- ter Having made a victorious war. 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Preserved ginger, sliced very thin- ly an dsprinldetl wit11 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 poo' ghosts; our sin-1111ed eyes cannot discern them; they 9;100 athwart us in their vapor, and cannot make themselves felt; But 00100110100 they are made fresh; they ,breathe upon us with warns Meath, they touch us with soft res- ponsive hands, they look at 00 with sod sincere eye.), and speak to us la appealing tones; they are clouted in a living human soul, with all its con. Mots, (10 faith, and its love. 'Then their presence is a power, thea they shake 110 ISite a passion, and Nye ate drawn after 1110111 with gentle compul- sion, as flange is drawn to Hanle,— Ge irge vJsliot. LITTLE DEEDS "Some day We shall learn that the little ,deeds of love wrought u11con- sclonsly as we pass 101 our way- are possibilities of the Wine], says that he greater In their 11019fuhless and will makes the above suggestion entirely shine more brightly in life than the. /ot his 05011 account, in the belief tient deeds of renown 001)011 Iva think or as England would gain by obtaining an alone making a life great," incomparably better naval and sit. :We Pay. the Highest Prices for base, But when he speaks of Gibral- tar in the follow:mg words be is speak- ing as a true Spaniard: 'In this nlan- iner would disappear for ever the sole existing cause of friction between England and Spain, the often unob- trusive but never forgotten obstacle to an imperishable friendship between the two nations. Gibraltar lin forei2;n hands is, and alw=ays will'ee, a thorn in the heart of Spain'," "The chariot of peace cannot ad- vance along a road cluttered with canto(:" -_Daviel Lloyd George. Commissioner Resigns London,—New Zealand's high Com- missioner in London, Sir James Parr, is leaving his post to take rp work in' behalf of the movement fee free trade within the empire. Sir James, a native of New Zealand, has been I-Iigh Commissioner here for "A man that's clean, inside and out- three years. He head various positions side, who neither looks up to the riot in the New Zealand Cabinet from 1920 no' clown to the poor, who can lose to 1926, 021)1 has since represented his without squealing and can win with- dominion in the League of Nations, in out bragging; who is considerate to the course of his duties as high cone. 100111011, children and old persons, missioner here, who is too brave to lie, too generous to cheat and too sensible to loaf; and Falling Hair—Just try Millard's. who takes his share of the world's goods and lets other people have MISTAKEN IDEAS theirs—that is my idea of a time gen- It Is failing .in love with, our 01011 Heinen," mistaken ideas that makes fools and — — beggars of hall mankind. --E. Yong, times its volume In avid. 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