Excerpt from Stead's Review, Vol. 51: January 11th, 1919 I looked at that gilded chamber where it first met, and realised that every. Man was loaded With a speech, my heart went out in gratitude to the wise Colonel, who had dammed the_ flood. As it was, Premier Clemenceau 1d. 1113 Opening address took less than two minutes, and soon our meet 1ng broke up, and everyone settled to work. Concerning speeches the 'colonel himself said. The more I see of life the more. I am impressed that the great handicap on so many statesmen is their love of talking for effect. They like to say something that will attract the attention of the crowd, and then sit idle for a week and read over their speech complacently. When I can I do away with that sort of thing; It means lost motion, waste-d effort and frequently foolish statements which are hard to live down. It matters little, of course, what delegates the Germans send, as they will merely have to accept what the Allies and American plenipotentiaries have agreed upon. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.