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Show Ge o ji (; e s clTemenTI CEAIT, whose tongue and pen are sharp in criticism. r v v e . i CLEira PROVES FERMENT OF FRICE j Veteran Premier Finds It Difficult to Discard Fault-Finding Fault-Finding Habit. i Special Cable to The Tribune. PARIS, July 29. It would" bo too much to ask that the -war and the ''Sacred L niou " of political parties! should have entirely doue away with the individualism or the French "people, and their si roii craving for personal criticism. As a matter of fact, do-bodv do-bodv here demands this. The political discussions between the parties and their leaders have been kept up quietly during the whole period peri-od of the war, as it were ou the uttermost utter-most fringe of the life of the nation, as far as permitted by the censor, and with the full respect lor the one great thing which all tiara in common. The only exception to the rule of repression re-pression has been Georges Clemeuceau. S'ot a single person here or anywhere in France, native or foreign, has tor a moment doubted the sincere patriotism patriot-ism and honest will of the former premier, pre-mier, but it is always difficult to lay off old habits, especially when they have become as old and stubborn as those of Clemenceau. To be the eternal "frondeur," the critic of public life, the "tiger' of politics, ' ' le tombeau de ministeres, ' ' who, when the moment came, stepped forward and crushed the master of the situation with his lightning, this has been his life during the half century he has played a part in French politics.) It is his very life every dav with unique cleverness to write an editorial, often brilliant, often full of the highest high-est esprit, but often also merely barking, bark-ing, because there must always be barking against somebody or something in France. Clemenceau has kept up his habit during the war, and when the former anti-militarist and warm patriot, Gus-tave Gus-tave Herve, not long ago said that Clemenceau is the dangerous disintegrating disinte-grating ferment that now threatens the1 unity and harmony of France, it is only the truth. |