An awesome, a tremendous sight was the lying-in-state of beloved "Papa" Joffre, Marshal of France. Last week the Chamber of Deputies met for the first time since his death (TIME, Jan. 5). Up, up the steep steps of the Tribune the oldest pair of legs in the chamber carried Deputy Maurice Sibille to read the official eulogy. Would it pass, or not? The Chamber is notoriously fickle. It refused to cheer Clemenceau on his first appearance after a would-be assassin had wounded him at the time of the peace conference. But "Tiger"...
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