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4 TTIE' SUNDAY OREGONIAX, PORTLAND, NOVEMBER 19, 1922 CLEMQIiCEAII HERE 1 01 PEACE MISSISI Tiger of France Is Greeted L With High Honors. , WILSON JOINS WELCOME VYar Counts for Nothing if Amcr- ica Takes Wrong Stand, Dec-lares JVoted Visitor. (Continuf-d from First Voce.) statesman and h went to it with a vim that belied his SI years. f The keen eyes beneath the shaggy brows were sparkling and snapping with excitement when the commit tee that went down the hay to greet him first caught sight of him, high upon the promenade deck of the J'aris. They .wierc still sparkling awd snapping when he was hustled into 'ha.rles Dana Gibson'aliome in East Seventy-third street at nightfall, to rest up for the morrow. Amrrli'as Sympathy Sought. The war premier of France, who left this country more than half a century ago as a young medical stu dent, returned, in ripe old age with many years of stormy statesman ship behind- him, to win for his country the sympathy of America. The Tiger found thousand of people watting for him on the tip Of Manhattan island. There were cheers when he stepped ashore rfnd then, headed by the police depart Weret band, 51. Clemenceau and the committee whicih welcomed him, (started up Broadway for lids official reception at the city hall. The aged statesman was carrying It red rose in one hand when he be fean his motor trip up the great can yon. Girls In office buildings leaned from windows and blew kisses to hint. He replied by waving the rose in a courtly manner. " The welcoming committee on ar riving at quarantine aboard the municipal steamer Macom found the Tiger peering through a window on the promenade deck. He was wear ing a gray cutaway with a gray fe dora. Committee Is Presented. ' Kscorted to the grand salon by the captain of the Paris, the committee Was presented to M. Clemenceau by J. J. Jusserand, French ambassador to the United States. : Robert Woods Bliss, assistant sec retary of state, welcomed the former premier to America in behalf of President Harding and invited him to visit the president at Washing ton. Clemenceau accepted, express ing his delight. Complimented by the committee on his healthy appearance, M. Clem enceaureplied lightly: "I am growing younger every day. In 60 years I think I'll be a baby." ; Robert Condon, a member of the national executive committee of the American Legion, then welcomed the ex-premier "as a man who more than any other exemplifies the spirit in which he carried on the war." Shaking hands, the Tiger replied: j "You're the man I like to see. It's the thoughts of your men that count." ' Making ready to leave the Bat tery, M. Clemenceau called excitedly to his valet Albert, who was going up the dock with the baggage, to be sure to see that it landed safely. Photographers Slake Bush. Led by Colonel E. M. House, a close personal friend, the distin guished Frenchman stepped gingerly aboard the municipal craft Manhat tan to cross to the Macom. The Manhattan's siren loosed three tre mendous blasts. The Tiger clapped his hands hurriedly over his ears and scrambled aboard the Macom. Then came a rush of photogra phers. "Oh, isn't there somebody to kill these photographers?" cried the Ti ger plaintively. "Is it not permissible in your country?" But he posed. A band aboard the Macom then struck up the "Marsellaise," and M. Clemenceau, his hat removed, stood with bowed head opposite Colonel House. Just as he was about to drop into a seat the musicians swung into "The Star-Spangled Ban- i ner" and he rose again. Then he was led to the bow by the com mittee and sank into an easy chair. The Tiger kept casting piercing glances from under his shaggy gray brows at the harbor scene. Soon he inquired for the whereabouts of the Statue of Liberty. M. Jusserand pointed it out through the mist with the jesting observation that the lady was somewhat obscured by prohi bition. : "Oh," finally exclaimed Clemen ceau, gazing at the statue. "It is really impressive." First Lecture Is Tuesday. Before landing the Tiger an nounced that he intended this af ternoon to attend the performance ot Mephistopheles at the Metro politan onera. house, whem h will deliver his first lecture Tuesday N In his chat with Ambassador ,Tus serand on politics, If. Clemenceau conversed in French. During an ani mated discussion regarding Premier Mussolini of Italy, the fascist! leader, the Tiger exclaimed: "Ah, there's a government!" The Tiger seemed bewildered when lie saw the army of newspaper re porters, photographers and movie men, more than 75 strong, which greeted him. Confetti and ticker tape rained on the Tiger as he moved up Broad way. At city hall, which he said he veil remembered, he was received by Acting-Mayor Murray Hulbert, who hailed him as "the most dis tinguished citizen of the great sis ter republic, France." ' "The people of the two nations relieved then, as they believe now, that self-government is the natural government of mankind," said Mr. Hulbert. "To the maintenance and defense of that principle you have devoted a long lifetime service char actenzed by the display of unusual courage, keen foresight, masterly aDimy ana dynamic force." George W. Wickershnm introduced "TIGER" OF FRANCE, WHO ARRIVES IS UNITED STATES FOR VISIT. I --V - - . - -, f, '- - 1 d? 4 t f f ,Vs j Photo by Underwood. GEORKES CXEMEXCEAr. the Tiger as one of the greatest citizens in the world. M. Clemenceau, responding to the welcome, said: "For 50 years I have been mixed up with the most important political crises in France. 1 have seen my country invaded twice during my lifetime. I do not want to see a third invasion before my death. "We will disperse our army when It can be shown that we are safe from this invasion." He explained that he came on no mipsion and that his visit was per sonal. At first, he said, he vowed he would not come to America be cause he was too old. But when he heard his country criticised he decided to come, he said. "We were called militaristic and imperialistic," he said. "If there's a man who is noLmilitaristic it is I." ' M. Clemenceau said that he read while in France an article by a great English critic criticising France and America and declared that this made him resolve "to defend Amer ica against anybody." He said that France "did not know what was going on in America and America did not know what was going cn in France and he wished to make the position of France clear, as a freeman speaking to freemen." From the city hall, M. Clemenceau motored to the home of Charles Dana Oibson, where he will stay. Tribute Paid America. In his reply to Acting Mayor Hul bert, who welcomed him, M. Clem enceau paid tribute to America's part in the world war, saying: "Wo had a terrific, the greatest war that ever was in the world. Men fell by hundreds of thousands in that war, and we waited very long sometimes and we looked around to see if some help, would not come. "Help' did come, and it came mag nificently, I must say, in the shape of the American soldier. I can speak of it as having seen it on the fields, and I have seen it, too, on the farm. Very often I met at the peasants' homes a big huge American with two children on his knees telling stories to them and trying to understand the questions that the old men and women should ask about America. "Of course he did not speak French more than the others spoke English. Some way or other, they made themselves understood. Very soon 'we discovered they were all friends. Americans Seen in Fight. "I have seen them the Americans in the fight and I have seen them the field when the Americans, under the command of General Pershing, took hold marvelously at St. Mihiel, releasing a great many people. When I arrived the next day, what did I see? All the Ameri can motors in the old city tun ot French women and children and flowers. These poor people who bad not been .allowed to get out of thein, dens for three years were res cued by the Americans. 'And I saw the crowd cry, and laughing, and crying, I think I saw once in a while an American soldier get a kiss from some woman. 'It was the next day after the battle took place, when all of the city had been emptied by the Americans, It was a joy not to be forgotten. "I saw sometimes the worst. I have seen Americans in the mud of the trenches for days and days with out being relieved and looking very sorry, but the moment I came and brought them the crosses of war the had so magnificently gained they were all smiles. We shook hands and we spoke of the old place. America was the old place. They did not cry and I could see the twinkle in their eyes. Of course, they. knew I was theirs and they knew they were mine. One day in the highway I met a troop ot sol diers going home and they made me feel sad when they spoke of the old country. Speeches Tire I,ung. "They said: 'Won't you come to America some day?' I said: 'No, I am-too old; I cannot think of going there.' "I said: 'You make me make speeches and it tires my lungs. I have very few of them lert, poor miserable things.' They said: 'You do come.' 'I won't go,' I said, and for years and years I said, 'I won't go." "One morning I was in my private house bordering on the sea on the other side of the water, when I received bad news from America. I heard bad names. We were called imperialists, and militarists. Ithink that is horrid, and I thought I had better go and tell them how things happened to pass and to show them that their judgment was not cor rect. "One day a British newspaper ar rived. It contained criticisms from a man of very high standing, calling America bad names. At that moment I decided I had better gp to Amer ica: That is the reason why I am here. I do not make sentences. I don't promise anything. I came, as you very well know, on a mission. "Nobody can ascribe any personal aim. to my act in visiting this coun try. My life is over. But it does seem to me that I can do you some service in letting you know how we Europeans judge the American peo ple. It is necessary because in the world at this time there is & crisis that hasn't been settled yet. How it "will end nobody knows. If you take the wrong side well, then the war counts for nothing and we may have to go to war again. If it turns out right and the right thing is done at the right time, then it will be one of the greatest steps for the civiliza tion of mankind. "That is the question I have come to put to America. I will ask them for great freedom of thought and great freedom of speech, r I must be allowed to speak as a free man to free men who are not afraid of any thing. Your greeting encourages me to believe that I will get access to American minds. It will be a great satisfaction to me. . - L ' Country Seen From Battery. "I looked, at this country from the Battery. It lias not changed as much as it seems. The young ladies look exactly the same and that is the first message I am going to send to my country. I am going to tell ray countrymen to come here because there are beautiful ladies to look at. "During more than 50 years I have been mixed up with all of the worst crises of France. Think of that! In my own life I have seen my country invaded twice by Ger mans. ,. I am the only survivor of those who protested at the assem bly of Bordeaux against the act of invasion. I do not want to see that invasion repeated.. I will not permit anyone to tell me that I have too many soldiers or too few. soldiers unless they succeed in some way in giving us such guarantees. Then only with the greatest of pleasure will I dissolve the French army. "Will you Americans show us the similar feeling? We must defend ourselves." REPUBLICANS IN ACCORD (Continued From First Page.) Vice-President Marshall, in the case ot ex-Senator Benet of South Caro lina, appointed to succeed the late Senator Tillman. Mr. Marshall held that Mr. Benet ceased to be a sen ator under the law after a successor to Mr. Tillman had been elected by the people of South Carolina.' Should Mrs. Felton be seated, it was stated, she would -serve with out pay under the statute which provides for the beginning of the salary of a senator elected to fill an unexpired term on the day of his election. Mrs. Felton's friends de clared the salary was not a consid eration that as she herself had stated, it was her sole desire to "blaze the road for the womanhood of America" to a senate place. Thei were reports today that some of Mrs. Felton's friends might undertake to persuade her not to present herself Monday and thus avoid the embarrassment that would result from an objection to her suc ceeding Mr. Watson. On the other hand, still others of her friends, it w-as stated, were urging her to ad here to the purpose which brought her on the 780-mile journey from Cartersville. Mrs. Felton holds that, whether or not she is seated, she has cleared the way for the service of women in the senate by the fact of her ap pointment to that body. This ap pointment came soon after the ad journment of congress late in Sep tember, and thus she was unable to take her seat at that time. Mrs. Felton arrived here early to day unattended. 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