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- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- General Introduction
- Editorial Foreword
- Preface to the First Edition
- Introduction to New Edition by Donald Winch
- Notes on Further Reading
- Corrections to this Edition
- I SKETCHES OF POLITICIANS
- 1 THE COUNCIL OF FOUR, PARIS 1919
- 2 LLOYD GEORGE: A FRAGMENT
- 3 A MEETING OF THE COUNCIL OF THREE
- 4 ANDREW BONAR LAW
- 5 HERBERT ASQUITH
- 6 EDWIN MONTAGU
- 7 ARTHUR BALFOUR
- 8 WINSTON CHURCHILL
- 9 REGINALD MCKENNA
- 10 THE GREAT VILLIERS CONNECTION
- 11 TROTSKY ON ENGLAND
- II LIVES OF ECONOMISTS
- III BRIEF SKETCHES
- IV HIS FRIENDS IN KING'S
- V TWO SCIENTISTS
- VI TWO MEMOIRS
- References
- Index of Names
1 - THE COUNCIL OF FOUR, PARIS 1919
from I - SKETCHES OF POLITICIANS
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- General Introduction
- Editorial Foreword
- Preface to the First Edition
- Introduction to New Edition by Donald Winch
- Notes on Further Reading
- Corrections to this Edition
- I SKETCHES OF POLITICIANS
- 1 THE COUNCIL OF FOUR, PARIS 1919
- 2 LLOYD GEORGE: A FRAGMENT
- 3 A MEETING OF THE COUNCIL OF THREE
- 4 ANDREW BONAR LAW
- 5 HERBERT ASQUITH
- 6 EDWIN MONTAGU
- 7 ARTHUR BALFOUR
- 8 WINSTON CHURCHILL
- 9 REGINALD MCKENNA
- 10 THE GREAT VILLIERS CONNECTION
- 11 TROTSKY ON ENGLAND
- II LIVES OF ECONOMISTS
- III BRIEF SKETCHES
- IV HIS FRIENDS IN KING'S
- V TWO SCIENTISTS
- VI TWO MEMOIRS
- References
- Index of Names
Summary
Clemenceau was by far the most eminent member of the Council of Four, and he had taken the measure of his colleagues. He alone both had an idea and had considered it in all its consequences. His age, his character, his wit, and his appearance joined to give him objectivity and a defined outline in an environment of confusion. One could not despise Clemenceau or dislike him, but as to the nature of civilised man, only take a different view or indulge, at least, a different hope.
The figure and bearing of Clemenceau are universally familiar. At the Council of Four he wore a square-tailed coat of very good, thick black broadcloth, and on his hands, which were never uncovered, grey suède gloves; his boots were of thick black leather, very good, but of a country style, and sometimes fastened in front, curiously, by a buckle instead of laces. His seat in the room in the President's house, where the regular meetings of the Council of Four were held (as distinguished from their private and unattended conferences in a smaller chamber below), was on a square brocaded chair in the middle of the semicircle facing the fireplace, with Signor Orlando on his left, the President next by the fireplace, and the Prime Minister opposite on the other side of the fireplace on his right. He carried no papers and no portfolio, and was unattended by any personal secretary, though several French ministers and officials appropriate to the particular matter in hand would be present round him.
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- The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes , pp. 3 - 19Publisher: Royal Economic SocietyPrint publication year: 1978