President Wilson has temporarily returned to the United States. Lloyd George too has had to make a short trip home to deal with pressing matters. Nevertheless the work of the Paris Conference continues. Edward House, Wilson’s advisor, deputises for the President, while Arthur Balfour, the British foreign minister, does the same for Lloyd George. Clemenceau is his way to meet these two for an important meeting today when a man loitering outside his house produces a gun and shoots.
The man shooting at the French prime minister is Émile Cottin, an anarchist, who had become increasingly hostile to Clemenceau after his troops broke up a strike last year. Cottin is nearly lynched before being 
arrested. Clemenceau meanwhile is hit, but survives. Nevertheless the incident is a disturbing one, with Allied leaders now wondering whether there might be some kind of Bolshevik-inspired plot to eliminate them all.
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