PARIS, March 8, 1940.
 
          I first visited Senator Jeanneney, the President of the Senate. The Senator received me in 
 
his official residence overlooking the Luxembourg Gardens. He has now reached the age of 
 
seventy-seven, and he prefaced our conversation by calling my attention to the fact that the
 
bust of Clemenceau was on the chest of drawers above his head. He said to me that Clemenceau 
 
had been the dominating influence in his life.
 
          The Senator told me that he, like President Lebrun, came from a French province adjacent 
 
to Germany, and that his earliest recollections had to do with the German military occupation of 
 
the village where he was born. He reminded me that since thst time as a result of German policy 
 
France had been plunged into two new wars, and he assured me that the sentiment of the French 
 
Senate was unanimous in favoring a continuation of the present war until Germany was defeated, 
 
and until Germany had been taught such a lesson as to make it impossible for the German people 
 
ever again to bring about a European conflagration.
 
          It seemed to me, as I listened to the Senator, that I was hearing the voice of Clemenceau 
 
himself: "There is only one way in which to deal with a mad dog. Either kill him, or chain him 
 
with steel chains which cannot be broken."
        
          I next visited M. Herriot, President of the Chamber of Deputies. M.Herrlot spoke with the 
 
deepest admiration for the President, and with much appreciation of his visit to