BRITAIN ON THE WANE
SOMETHING BEING LOST, SAID CLEMENCEAU DOMINIONS AS ENEMIES . —By I'clcgraph—Copyright Reed. 9.5 a.m. PARIS, Monday. In a series of talks collected, and just published, by Mr. Georges Clemenceau’s former secretary, M. Jean Marter, M. Clemenceau, referring to England, says:— ‘She is a very great lady, reserved and cruel, but not without charm. England perhaps is the country which has ruled longer than any other. Unfortunately, she is now showing a sort of enfeeblement or lassitude. She is a conqueror no longer. She lives up to conquest. What can we expect? Her history has lasted too long. "The English have three kinds of enemies—firstly, their avowed enemies, hut they are not the most to be feared: secondly, their Dominions, their family in Asia, Africa, and Australia, which are beginning to be restless. and kick her from behind: and finally, the English themselves. They don’t put up the same fight as they did a century ago, and there is something they are gradually losing.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 848, 17 December 1929, Page 9
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