French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau greeting General Fernando Tamagnini, commander of Portuguese forces on the Western Front.
Os Portugueses em França; M. Clemenceau e o General Tamagnini.Les Portugais en France; M. Clemenceau le Général Tamagnini.The Portuguese in France; Marshal Douglas Haig and General Tamagnini.Reverse:Serv. Phot. do C. E P. - Phot. GarcezLévy Fils & Cie. Paris
"On November 16 Clemenceau formed his new government with himself as the minister of war. In his ministerial declaration before the Chamber of Deputies on November 20, Clemenceau promised a 'redoubling' of France's efforts and an end to political intrigues and crises: 'Neither personal considerations, nor political passions will turn us from our duty. . . . No more pacifist campaigns, no more German intrigues. Neither treason, nor half treason. War. Nothing but war.'"
The government of French Prime Minister Paul Painlevé fell on November 13, 1917, two months after its formation. Painlevé's government fell after mutinies in much of the French army in May and June and the Bolshevik Revolution at the beginning of November, in a storm of charges of collaboration with Germany and outright treason directed against pacifists, socialists, the leftist press, and some close to Painlevé. President Raymond Poincaré asked Georges Clemenceau to form a new government.
Pyrrhic Victory; French Strategy and Operations in the Great War by Robert A. Doughty, page 402, copyright © 2005 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College, publisher: Harvard University Press, publication date: 2005
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