FRANCE: Tiger, Tiger!

Three events focused the attention of thoughtful Americans last week upon the aged "Tiger" of France, M. Georges Eugène Benjamin Adrien Clémenceau, now in his 84th year.

The first was the death, early in the week, of Senator Felix Jules Meline, 87, dean of French Parliamentarians, Premier during the period of the famed Dreyfus scandal, known as "The McKinley of France" on account of his indefatigable championship of the protective tariff. The passing of M. Meline, it was observed, leaves M. Clémenceau as practically the...

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