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Show TEARS APPEAR WHEi 'j GLEMENCEftU DEPARTS ! I Tributes Paid Tiger of France Upon His Leaving Supreme Council and Public Life PARIS, Jan. 21. Georges Clcmen-ceau, Clcmen-ceau, former. premier and minister of war. handed over the ministry of war to Andre Lefcvrc, the new war minister, minis-ter, st 2:30 o'clock this afternoon. Immediately Im-mediately after turning over the port, folio to his successor, M. Clemenccau left the ministry. PARIS, Jan. 21. The supreme council coun-cil decided Uiis morning that the newi conference of ambassadors would be inaugurated ou Monday, January 26. This conference will be entrusted with the task of ensuring the carrying out of the treaty of Versailles and the discussion dis-cussion of current routine matters con-, nected with peaco affairs. The great questious of international policy, how-1 ever, will be reserved for settlement! at conferences in which the heads of the allied governments will siL : M. Clemenceau presided over today's , session of the council for a short time, giving way to Premier Millerand. The! others in attendance were Earl Cur- zon, the British foreign secretary; Sig-nor Sig-nor cli Martino, for Italy; Baron Mat-sui, Mat-sui, for Japan; and Ambassador Wal-' lace for the United States. Tribute to Clemenceau. Before the council was finally adjourned ad-journed yesterday, David Lloyd George asked that the following statement be entered upon the minutes of tho council. coun-cil. "Conscious of the inestimable services serv-ices which Monsiuer Georges Clemenceau, Clemen-ceau, president during more than a year of the peace conference, has rendered ren-dered the cause of peace, and grateful !to him as wc are, for the dignity, impartiality im-partiality and wisdom with which he has conducted our deliberations, we, his colleagues, desire to express to him our unalterable esteem as well as our hope that in the calm of his retirement retire-ment he may live long enough to see his incomparable work bear fruit for the glory of France and the renewal of the prosperity of the world." American Speaks. Hugh C. Wallace, the American ambassador, am-bassador, who followed Lloyd George, said : "Mr. President; It is a deep regret for me not to have been ablo to be present longer m these deliberations ami to profit by your great wisdom and your incomparable good temper. , I have learned to know you and that is to say love you, and President Wil- . son already had told me how deeply attached at-tached he was to you. I want to ex- ; press lo you the sentiment we foot for you and to wish you a long and happy . life." M. Clemenceau in thanking the council for Its expressions of esteem, said: Clemenccau Replies. "If Great Britain, the United States, Italy and. Japan remain united, there is a guarantee oi peace which exceeus ; nil those guarantees which can be put on paper. If one day these nations are i separated, I dare not think of ths mis- i fortunes which may result" In conclusion M. Clemenceau taid: i "I shall not' lose sight of the peace we .".re completing and shall continue to follow its progress until ray last i breath. I shall try by all good wishes! at least lo do all in my power for the solidity of that peace, for, indeed, if' by Misfortune the elements of discord should arise among you, the blood of our soldiers should be shed in vain for hopes that would not bo realized. "I wont believe that such an eventuality eventu-ality is possible, I know tho sentiments senti-ments of my friend, M. Millerand. I know that he, as I, is convinced that, an alliance for a lasting understanding must bo maintained between all the! peoples represented here." After shaking hands warmly with all I present, M. Clemenceau, with tears in I his eyes, left forever the foreign minis-1 ter's private office, where daily forj more than a year he has toiled for the greatness of his country and peace of' the world. j oo |