Clemenceau once said of Thomas Woodrow Wilson (yes, his given name was THOMAS Woodrow Wilson ... his penchant for only signing WW notwithstanding), "Yes, Mr. Wilson has a broad mind, open and elevated.He is a man who inspires respect by the simplicity of his words and the noble candeur of his spirit."
Those more fluent in French, please correct if this is not so, but is not candeur a faux ami meaning naivete or guilessness?
Clemenceau went on to say, "Do not think that because President Wilson - who arrives from America with his high thoughts and desires to realize them in Europe that I am obliged immediately to express my own."
Source: 1918: War and Peace by Gregor Dallas. Pages 215-216.
It was exactly Wilson's broad, open and elevated mind combined with his naivete that made him such an ass...which to this day he remains. Yes, Woodrow Wilson was a "progressive" ass and he took the world who shamelessly adhered to him down a road which shouldn't have been "less traveled." That road should not have been traveled at all.
Those more fluent in French, please correct if this is not so, but is not candeur a faux ami meaning naivete or guilessness?
Clemenceau went on to say, "Do not think that because President Wilson - who arrives from America with his high thoughts and desires to realize them in Europe that I am obliged immediately to express my own."
Source: 1918: War and Peace by Gregor Dallas. Pages 215-216.
It was exactly Wilson's broad, open and elevated mind combined with his naivete that made him such an ass...which to this day he remains. Yes, Woodrow Wilson was a "progressive" ass and he took the world who shamelessly adhered to him down a road which shouldn't have been "less traveled." That road should not have been traveled at all.
