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...days, leadership in the Bonus army changed three times. For the third time since he set out from Portland, Ore. two months ago as an unemployed cannery superintendent leading the B. E. F. nucleus, Walter W. Waters resigned his command. Infected by the parliamentary goings-on at Chicago, the idle veterans decided to hold a convention, elect a commander-in-chief. While this agitation was in the air, Commander Waters staged a coup d'état. He and his erstwhile "staff" drove out to muddy Anacostia in the Waters "official car." Mounting a shack, he harangued his audience into...
Credit for the B. E. F.'s good behavior went principally to 34-year-old Walter W. Waters, originator of the Washington march, who was selected last week as the B. E. F.'s commander-in-chief. Tall, lean, sunburned, Waters first saw service on the Mexican border. Then he went overseas as a sergeant for nearly two years with the 146th Field Artillery. Mustered out, he married a blonde slip of a girl from Valparaiso, Ind., took her to Oregon where he worked as superintendent of a canning factory, had a house...
Everyone knows that before the outbreak of hostilities Foch was a valued instructor, later commandant of the French War College. Most U. S. citizens have forgotten what he did between 1914 and 1918 when he became Commander-in-Chief. At the beginning of the War he had command of the 20th Army Corps between Toul and Nancy. His adjutant was a little slant-eyed terrier of a man, Lieut.-Col. Max Weygand. Faithful Wey- gand never left him, carries on today as Vice-President of the Higher War Council, highest peacetime post...
During the retreat before the Marne, Foch was given command of the 9th Army. Through the battle of the Marne (for which Foch gives full credit to Papa Joffre) he held this command, shared with the 4th Army the brunt of the German attack. After the Marne, Foch became assistant to Joffre, held this position until he went into temporary political banishment with the appointment of Nivelle as French Commander-in-Chief. In 1917 Foch became Chief of the French General Staff, made a flying visit to Italy to rally the Italian armies fleeing from Caporetto. In January...
...General Bliss, who was present, General Pershing was selected as commander of the Punitive Expedition. In making this suggestion General Bliss pointed out briefly how Pershing was the logical man as he was on the ground, knew the situation and was thoroughly competent. General Pershing did the best he could notwithstanding the many embarrassing handicaps which .were placed upon him. He demonstrated to the complete satisfaction of the administration that he was a soldier through and through, one who would loyally obey the orders of the Commander-in-Chief without question or complaint. How natural it was a few months...