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Clemenceau said ...‘ I am totally opposed to you – we both recognise a great danger and you are ... reducing your army and weakening your navy .’ ‘ Ah ’ said Bannerman ‘ but that is for economy !’... then said that he thought the English ought to have some kind of military service, at which Bannerman nearly fainted ...‘ It comes to this ’ said Clemenceau ‘ in the event of your supporting us against Germany are you ready to abide by the plans agreed upon between our War Offices and to land 110, 000 men on the coast while Italy marches with us in the ranks ?’ Then came the crowning touch of the interview.
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Clemenceau and said
This confidence began to spread from the trenches to the home front and it was said " We believed in Clemenceau rather in the way that our ancestors believed in Joan of Arc.
It was said that " Like everyone else … Clemenceau will not last long-only long enough to clean up war.
Clemenceau said to Lloyd George in June: " We need a barrier behind which, in the years to come, our people can work in security to rebuild its ruins.
As French statesman Georges Clemenceau said, " War is too important a business to be left to soldiers.
Not long after this Violet Cecil met Clemenceau and she wrote down what he had said to her about the meeting:
After Georges Clemenceau had accused Germany of being responsible for the war, Brockdorff-Rantzau said that the issue was to reach a lasting peace but admitting that the power of German arms was broken, he nevertheless declared that admission of sole German responsibility for the war would be a lie.
Clemenceau and I
During World War I, in which his younger son Michel served and his friend and admirer Clemenceau led the French nation, Monet painted a series of weeping willow trees as homage to the French fallen soldiers.
Clemenceau replied that the alliance with America and Britain was of more value than an isolated France which held onto the Rhineland: " In fifteen years I will be dead, but if you do me the honour of visiting my tomb, you will be able to say that the Germans have not fulfilled all the clauses of the treaty, and that we are still on the Rhine ".
Maurras then supported France's entry into World War I ( even to the extent of supporting the thoroughly republican Georges Clemenceau ) against the German Empire.
Wilson defended Haig ’ s position to the War Cabinet ( 6 March ) and blamed Clemenceau and Petain ( both of whom disliked Foch ) and wrote in his diary that the British government had little choice but to back Haig “ wrong as I believe him to be ”.
The celebrated phrase, " I will fight in front of Paris, I will fight in Paris, I will fight behind Paris ," attributed both to Foch and Clemenceau, illustrated the Généralissime's resolve to keep the Allied armies intact, even at the risk of losing the capital.
The Big Four ( World War I ) | The " Big Four " at the Treaty of Versailles: David Lloyd George, Vittorio Emanuele Orlando, Georges Clemenceau and Woodrow Wilson.
Born at Mouilleron-en-Pareds ( Vendée ), in the same village of WWI leader Georges Clemenceau, to an aristocratic family, he graduated from officer school in 1911 ( ranked 5th in his class in Saint-Cyr ), fought in World War I and was wounded twice.
The mountain was renamed by the Interprovincial Boundary Survey in 1919 to its present name, which is for Georges Clemenceau, premier of France during World War I.
French Prime Minister Clemenceau chose the Hall of Mirrors to sign the Treaty of Versailles that ended World War I on 28 June 1919.
When French Premier Clemenceau, the French premier, published the letter a year later Count von Czernin, feeling himself betrayed by Emperor Karl I and on the verge of a nervous breakdown, tendered his resignation on 14 April 1918.
Spears became aware of Clemenceau ’ s ruthlessness – ‘ probably the most difficult and dangerous man I have ever met ’ – and told London that he was ‘ out to wreck ’ the Supreme War Council at Versailles, France being bent on its domination.
* Clemenceau ( World War I French Prime Minister )
Clemenceau and totally
‘ The sentiments of the English people would be totally averse to any troops being landed by England on the continent under any circumstances .’ Clemenceau looks upon this as undoing the whole result of the entente cordiale and says that if that represents the final mind of the British Government, he has done with us.
Clemenceau and opposed
Clemenceau adamantly opposed these opinions and he gave an inspirational speech to parliament and " the chamber " voted their confidence in him 377 votes to 110.
Georges Clemenceau, of the Radical Republicans, opposed participation in the scramble for Africa and other adventures that would divert the Republic from objectives related to the " blue line of the Vosges " in Alsace-Lorraine.
Clemenceau and you
As the situation worsened in early 1918, Clemenceau continued to support the policy of total war – " We present ourselves before you with the single thought of total war " – and the policy of " la guerre jusqu ' au bout " ( war until the end ).
Clemenceau and –
* 2006 – The French warship Clemenceau reaches Egypt and is barred access to the Suez Canal.
* September 28 – Georges Clemenceau, French statesman ( d. 1929 )
At the beginning of his political career, the future French statesman Georges Clemenceau ( 1841 – 1929 ) was mayor of Montmartre.
Georges Benjamin Clemenceau (; ( 28 September 1841 – 24 November 1929 ) was a French journalist, physician, and statesman.
His father Benjamin Clemenceau ( 1810 – 1897 ) came from a long line of physicians, but he lived off his lands and investments and did not practice medicine.
Portrait of Clemenceau by Edouard Manet, c. 1879 – 80.
On 11 November an armistice with Germany was signed – Clemenceau saw this was Germany's admission of defeat.
Clemenceau often joked about the " assassin's " bad marksmanship – “ We have just won the most terrible war in history, yet here is a Frenchman who misses his target 6 out of 7 times at point-blank range.
* Georges Clemenceau – President of the Council and Minister of the Interior
* Georges Clemenceau – President of the Council and Minister of War
Station Charles de Gaulle – Étoile is at the street's west end, and there are three stations with entrances on the street itself ; from west to east these are: George V by the Hôtel George-V, Franklin D. Roosevelt at the rond-point des Champs-Élysées, and Champs-Élysées – Clemenceau at place Clemenceau.
It was negotiated between British Prime Minister Lloyd George and French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau and rendered many of the guarantees in the Hussein – McMahon agreement invalid.
# REDIRECT Champs-Élysées – Clemenceau ( Paris Métro )
It was the southern terminus of line 13 until its extension to Champs-Élysées – Clemenceau on 18 February 1975.
* December 21 – The first aircraft carrier designed as such to be launched in France, Clemenceau, is launched by the Brest Arsenal at Brest .< ref > Gardiner, Robert, Conways All the Worlds Fighting Ships 1947-1982, Part One: The Western Powers, < Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1983, ISBN 0-87021-418-7, p. 28 .</ ref >
* Georges Clemenceau, was a politician of Draguignan: deputy of the district of Draguignan ( 1885 – 1893 ) and senator of the same district ( 1902 – 1920 ), French prime minister in 1906-1909 and 1917 – 1920
Clemenceau and both
Clemenceau realised that any compromise would anger both the French and British citizens and that the only option was to establish a reparations commission which would examine Germany ’ s capacity for reparations.
Clemenceau replied that he was sure the Senate would ratify both and that he had inserted Article 429 into the treaty, providing for " new arrangements concerning the Rhine ".
George Clemenceau's epitaph of Faure, in the same trend, was " Il voulait être César, il ne fut que Pompée " ( another wordplay in French ; could mean both " he wished to be Caesar, but ended up as Pompey ", or " he wished to be Caesar and ended up being blown ": the verb " pomper " in French is also slang for performing oral sex on a man ); Clemenceau, who was also editor of the newspaper l ' Aurore, wrote that " upon entering the void, he must have felt home ".< ref >
That month Wilson defended Haig to Clemenceau and Foch, both of whom wanted him removed ( Clemenceau preferred Allenby as Haig ’ s replacement, Foch preferred Plumer ), telling Clemenceau that Haig was the right man for the “ bad times ” which were coming, although he was critical of Robertson.
At the beginning of the year Raymond Poincaré was still president and Georges Clemenceau was still prime minister, but as both senatorial and presidential elections were due in January, important political changes occurred early in the year.
Gapon and Rutenberg were welcomed in Europe by both prominent Russian emigrants Georgy Plekhanov, Vladimir Lenin, Pyotr Kropotkin, and French socialist leaders Jean Jaurès and Georges Clemenceau.
Gapon and Rutenberg fled abroad, being welcomed in Europe both by prominent Russian emigrants Georgy Plekhanov, Vladimir Lenin, Pyotr Kropotkin, and French socialist leaders Jean Jaurès and Georges Clemenceau.
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