Georges Clemenceau - Autograph Manuscript - First World War 1914

Georges CLEMENCEAU (1841 - 1929), French journalist and statesman
Autograph manuscript entitled “Alert”. S.l.n.d. (Early July 1914); 5 pages ½ in-4°.
Article with numerous erasures, annotations and additions with a view to being published in Clemenceau's daily newspaper, “l'Homme libre”, at the beginning of July 1914. Historical article by Clemenceau giving a fine analysis of the complexity of the political issues between the different protagonists in the powder keg of the Balkans, following the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria by a Serbian nationalist, on June 28, 1914, who triggered the Austro-Hungarian Empire's ultimatum to Serbia. A month later, Europe was set ablaze by four years of conflict between empires which spread to other countries with nearly ten million dead and missing and twenty-one million wounded and mutilated.