. Review of reviews and world's work. nger were elected by alias set tlie whole world talking about liini large majority lie woukl not declare himselffor his part in the recent labor troubles in France, Dictator and use the army to trample out allis—to talk in terms of British politics—a com- opposition. It was a thrillina- moment. Neverpound of Jolin Morley,John Burns, and Sid-ney Webb. M. Clemenceau is aman of the world, butlie leans more towardAnglo-Saxon qualitiesthan in any other direc-tion from his ownFrench character. Hehas lived in married an Ameri-can lady (Miss Maryriummer
. Review of reviews and world's work. nger were elected by alias set tlie whole world talking about liini large majority lie woukl not declare himselffor his part in the recent labor troubles in France, Dictator and use the army to trample out allis—to talk in terms of British politics—a com- opposition. It was a thrillina- moment. Neverpound of Jolin Morley,John Burns, and Sid-ney Webb. M. Clemenceau is aman of the world, butlie leans more towardAnglo-Saxon qualitiesthan in any other direc-tion from his ownFrench character. Hehas lived in married an Ameri-can lady (Miss Maryriummer). He speaksan almost idiomaticEnglish. He is one ofthe most brilliant ofjournalists, and one ofthe most witty and in-telligent of compan-ions. There is also inhim, despite a certaincynical flippancy ofspeecli which leads hiscritics sometimes to de-clare that he is at liearta mere gninin de Paris,a trace of the strain ofa hero. He is as in-trepid as he is dexter-ous. He is the Ulyssesrather than the Nestorof tlie French but he has been so long a leading actor in thedrama of Republican politics that he seems al-ways to date back to remote antiquity. M. Clemenceau believed in General for M. Clemenceau the hrav^ general wouldnever have been minister of war. ^I. Clemen-ceau put him in office as a security against theenemies of the republic and of peace. He re-mained there to become the most dangerousenemy of the republic and of the general spent some hours on the night of Boulangerselection by popular vote walking up and downthe Boulevard with M. Clemenceau. Nobody THE most notable OF MODERN FRENCH POLITICIANS. (M. Georges Clemenceau, the new French minister of theinterior.) He is only sixty-four, responsibility of office. was I so deeply im-pressed with the of all constitu-tional guarantees in thepiesence of an can give theword of command at thewar office has the nationat his mercy. Fortu-nately, General
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