Being Dead, Yet Speaketh.

itself, there has lately been published a posthumous book by Clemenceau, probably a reprisal to a criticism by Foch, published after Foch's death and authorised by Foch, although not written with Foch's own hand. Foch is on the old familiar story that Clemenceau, by political bungling, lost for France that left bank of the Rhine that her soldiers had won for her. (Other countries' soldiers, too.) To this Clemenceau feels compelled to reply that he was sold by the Allies, who failed to ratify the triple guarantee. Mr. Wickham Steed concisely sums it up:

Foch, and those who thought with him, could mock at the faith Clemenceau had placed in England and the United States. Clemenceau's bitterness against American post-war policy, and especially against Mr. Lloyd George … . breaks out on page after page of his book.

And French politicians who have succeeded Clemenceau are not likely to forget. Certainly Tardieu, at the London Naval Conference did not forget.

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The world has been waiting during the month for another United States decision, the final enactment of the new tariff. On the whole, it has turned out to be