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Stubbornly patriotic as Marshal Pétain may be, his patriotism has never emphasized or even reflected the French egalitarian spirit. Even as an officer in World War I he was a professed Royalist, often expressing dislike for liberalism and democratic institutions. In 1934 when the Fascist Croix de Feu attempted a coup d'etat, its demand was for the Hero of Verdun as head of Government. Again, in 1937 when the Cagoulards (Hooded Ones) were caught in what seemed a foolish revolutionary plot, their aim was to make Pétain dictator...
...Goethals and MacArthur were members of the Corps. A few could recall the day in November 1918 when the famed Second Division lined up with its Engineer regiment in the honor position on the right of the line. The division cheered mightily when the ribbon of the Croix de Guerre was pinned on the Engineers' colors. That honor was for a day at Soissons when the red necks drove six miles into enemy territory, captured 2,700 prisoners...
...Vichy the French Governent was having medal trouble . Finding that it had given out more medals per day in disastrous World War II than in victorious World War I. France revoked all 1939 40 red-&-green-ribboned Croix de Guerre, promised a special new green-&-black-ribboned Croix de Guerre to holders of the old medals who had proven on investigation really to have earned them...
Representative Fish was with the Yanks in 1917 and received the Croix de Guerre and the Silver Star Citation for Gallantry in Action. As a reserve he was training with the army during the maneuvers at Plattaburg last summer...
Captain Henry Noel Marryat Hardy, a D.S.O. and Croix de Guerre man of World War I, who returned to duty last year out of retirement in Switzerland, turned four of his eight 6-inchers loose, and tried to close, full speed. He repeatedly hit the German, who had to turn and use her port batteries when the starboard ones were evidently disabled. But the German kept on running, being a raider, not supposed to stand and fight. She had much more foot than the Carnarvon Castle's 17 knots and so, behind smoke screens, she escaped; but not before...