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...these and other scenes, every line was taken from the speaker's actual addresses or writings, thus turning the sequences into stark, strident, sometimes awkward exchanges of punch lines rather than into coherent dialogues. But punchy they were, as when Clemenceau (Eric Berry) delivered his famous judgment on Wilson (Harry Townes): "God gave us his Ten Commandments; we broke them. Wilson gave us his Fourteen Points; we shall see." On the whole, the note of authenticity was worth the price of occasional stiltedness, particularly in the juxtaposition of a courageous Lincoln (Michael Tolan) with a monomaniac McClellan, a tough...
...Woodley Road to write his syndicated column, "Today and Tomorrow." The study is manifestly a scholar's lair. Ceiling-high, Pompeian red bookcases line three walls; the fourth is decked with framed pictures of Lippmann friends, living and dead: Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Woodrow Wilson, Winston Churchill, Georges Clemenceau. A snow of documents mantles the oaken desk...
...French national interests, De Gaulle won himself the name of an intransigent troublemaker. Franklin Roosevelt, reporting on the Casablanca Conference in a letter to his son John, wrote: "The day [De Gaulle] arrived he thought he was Joan of Arc and the following day he insisted he was Georges Clemenceau." A series of equally bitter arguments over British policy in Syria and Madagascar led Winston Churchill to complain: "Of all the crosses I have borne since 1940 none is so heavy as the Cross of Lorraine...
ONCE when old Georges Clemenceau was accused of bringing down one French government after another, he retorted: "But it's always the same government." Perhaps it was then, but is it now? For TIME Correspondent Godfrey Blunden's report on the tensions that grip Frenchmen as they search for a government-and their place in the 20th century - see FOREIGN NEWS, Paris in the Spring...
Loyal Tribute. What of Wilson's own defects? Winston Churchill once wrote: "If Mr. Wilson had been either simply an idealist or a caucus politician, he might have succeeded. His attempt to run the two in double harness was the cause of his undoing." And Georges Clemenceau, the old French tiger whose claws helped to shred the Wilsonian dream, snarled: "He acted to the very best of his abilities in circumstances the origins of which had escaped him and whose ulterior developments lay beyond...