Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1918 — Vive Clemenceau! [ARTICLE]

Vive Clemenceau!

A Lesson by the Warrior of the Stout Heart.'

By GUY F. LEE.

“Give me six months to live/’ Clemenceau, seventy-seven, leader of France, said to his doctor Thursday. “That’s all I want.” Six months that he may see the Hun driven from the soil of his fathers. Six months that he may see a start toward the restoration of those quaint and beautiful towns, now only broken fragments of desolation and despair. Six months that he may see the husbandry of peace again-tilling the shelltorn ground for the return of the flowers and grass and trees. Six months that he mny see the homecoming of “le grande armee” — sound cheers for the millions marching along the Champs Elysee, and weep tears for the millions back there who are not coming home save in the hearts of the world. It will be a busy six months for Clemenceau ; 24 hours a day, his daily program, fils words to the doctor: “Tell me frankly if I can carry on for the next six months in that devil of a way I carry on now; six months is all I want.” Stout heart of a nation of stout hearts: may you have sixty times the six months you ask!