Word: ambition
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ambit of the book, like space, seems unconfined. The main part, however, is devoted to a vigorous defence of the author's character, which has been much maligned by the French for weakness in dealing with treachery behind the lines. He terms all such niaiserie "legends" and proves that sedition in the Army had been cured by his pill before Clémenceau came on the scene. Following up the attack, he says that it was he and not Clémenceau who ordered the arrest of the most notorious traitors, notably Bolo Pasha...