CLEMENCEAU'S ANCESTRY

Thames Star, Volume LVII, Issue 15113, 23 December 1921, Page 2

CLEMENCEAU'S ANCESTRY

REALLY A TARTAR. PARIS, September 17. • The mutual admiration which has characterised the relations of Georges Clemenceau and Dr. Wellington Koo, the Chinese Ambassador to Great Britain, is at last explained by ethnologists, who have decided that the "Tiger's" Mongol east of features is due to the fact that Attila's Tartar descendants actually advanced as far as the Vendee Department of France, where the Clemenceau family ori--ginated. According to historians, one of Attila's divisions swept westward, in search of gold stores which had been told of by mariners who had reached the Spanish coast. When they reached Clemenceau's country they gave Up hope of finding wealth, and, attracted by the beauty of the French natives, settled down »to become peaceful farmers, naturally marry* ing, or, at least, setting up establishments with buxom Vendeeans as mates. The theory, moreover, is adequately supported by the fact that a majority of those who trace their ancestry through the centuries in the same countryside have distinctly Oriental features. M. Clemenceau himself has at least a dozen doubles who are constantly saluted as the ex-Premier by visitors.