Word: ferdinands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Anti-Climax. An entire wagonlit full of correspondents who had accompanied the Queen from Paris were vexed by the necessity of reporting that King Ferdinand, who waited on the platform to greet his royal consort, seemed a trifle pale but by no means at Death's door. The correspondents had come in hopes of witnessing...
...rumor spread wildfirewise through Rumania last week that King Ferdinand lay dead in his palace, but that the fact would be concealed until after the return of Queen Marie to Bucharest. From every major Capital, Rumanian diplomats protested indignantly that their Sovereign was alive.* Meanwhile the Rumanian Court Chamberlain, General Angelesco, sped to meet Queen Marie on her arrival at Cherbourg...
There was no lack of sufficient reasons for Her Majesty's return: 1) King Ferdinand's imperfect "health" is both physical and political. A crisis both for the King as a man and for the man as a King has long been imminent (TIME, Jan. 11). 2) Despatches from Bucharest reported Queen Marie's "palace clique" to be holding its own with difficulty, since her departure, against the renewed onslaughts of the minority parties. Her Majesty is the political Generalissimo of the Crown. Having sped to Manhattan, she motored up the Hudson to Tuxedo, and rested there...
...been assigned to defend with a pitiably small force, his brilliant "intuitive" maneuver of the 42nd Division from his left to his centre forced the enemy back and proved a paramount element in the French victory. Marshal Joseph Jacques Joffre, who had long realized the special capabilities of Ferdinand Foch, took this opportunity to send him as "Deputy Commander-in-Chief" to put himself in the closest touch with the British and Belgian commanders. His success in conciliating all with whom he had to deal led eventually to his appointment as Generalissimo and caused Mr. Lloyd George...
...Though Ferdinand Foch was all but unknown in the U. S. prior to the World War, he enlisted as a private in the Franco-Prussian war of 1870, and later, after attending the War College, became a professor there (1894) renowned for the soundness of his matter and the brilliant originality of his presentation. He developed a veritable "school" of French officers who gave unusual attention to that evanescent factor which was to prove so vital when the War came: morale...