. Review of reviews and world's work . eakens,to forgive; thus Clemenceau leads us backto the highest tradition of human it is by a like inspiration towardnobleness that it is possible to explain whyfrom the platform of the Senate some weeksbefore the armistice, at a time when publicopinion was ignorant of everything thatmade the victory inevitable, Clemenceauuttered in advance words excluding all ideaof vengeance, or of reprisals in his address tothe vanquished, and did not sully the gloryof his country by the barbaric cry: *VaeVictis! Other Difficult TasksBut the most difficul
. Review of reviews and world's work . eakens,to forgive; thus Clemenceau leads us backto the highest tradition of human it is by a like inspiration towardnobleness that it is possible to explain whyfrom the platform of the Senate some weeksbefore the armistice, at a time when publicopinion was ignorant of everything thatmade the victory inevitable, Clemenceauuttered in advance words excluding all ideaof vengeance, or of reprisals in his address tothe vanquished, and did not sully the gloryof his country by the barbaric cry: *VaeVictis! Other Difficult TasksBut the most difficult tasks have not beenaccomplished. To restore a country to nor-mal conditions of life after such a time oftrial is a task still more difficult than thetasks of war properly so-called. Social readjustments will be the most deli-cate of all. Political rivalries and class an-tagonism will certainly be more acute byreason of the economic difficulties createdby four years of war, and the great idealsfor which the peoples have been fighting.
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