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United Under Lincoln:
In the 1860s, a young Frenchman named Georges Clemenceau shared in the global grief occasioned by Lincoln's death. 54 years later, Clemenceau and David Lloyd George (Prime Ministers of France and England respectively) negotiated the post-World War I map of Europe and its accompanying geo-political power with their American counterpart, Woodrow Wilson. In 1919, at the Paris Peace Conference, which established a series of treaties that would end World War I, mutual admiration of Lincoln was a favorite topic of conversation among the three leaders, who agreed upon little else.
World War I:
On the eve of World War I, Abraham Lincoln the war leader had evolved into a mythical emissary of world peace. ... |