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...last seven years of his life Marshal Ferdinand Foch with his pincenez perched on his nose, sat in his little office in the top of the Hotel des Invalides covering long sheets of foolscap with his precise schoolmaster's handwriting. He was writing his memoirs. Historians and editors who hoped that these piles of paper might help solve the problem of War Guilt, define the exact value of U. S. troops in the victory, state the real contribution of the Commander-in-Chief, chafed at the thought that by the cautious Marshal's wish the book...
...Ferdinand Foch was a very modest man with a very level head. He realized perfectly well that it was important for the world to know what the Allied Commander-in-Chief had done in the War. He persisted in believing that the private opinions and experiences of Ferdinand Foch were of no interest to anyone. The result is a document to which might be applied the late great Gladstone's description of J. W. Cross's Life of George Eliot: "It is not a Life at all, it is a Reticence?in three volumes." Even so, many a significant fact...
...dark-eyed boy was taking examinations for the Ecole Polytechnique, government military school at Paris. The professor of French composition, trembling with emotion, scrawled on the blackboard: "Develop this thought of Kl�ber's:? 'It is essential that the young train their faculties.' " Through the open window Student Ferdinand Foch heard the distant booming of Prussian cannon. He never forgot that afternoon...
...Francis Ferdinand Lucas, metallurgist and microscopist of Bell Telephone Laboratories, had good news for the members of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers assembled last week in Manhattan. Said he: "There will shortly be delivered in New York a new metallographic equipment. ... I have recently put it through its paces . . . and I speak with a measure of assurance when I say that we shall see some revolutionary advances in the art of metallography...
...Papist!" stormed leading French news-organs of the Left last week at brilliant, bowlegged little General Max Weygand. He is as good a Roman Catholic as was his patron Marshal Ferdinand Foch who used to speak of him as "Max, my spiritual son." Last week as the climax of a long and masterly campaign of military intrigue (TIME, Jan. 13, 1930), General Weygand forced out Marshal Pétain and assumed the office which carries with it supreme command of the French Army. This office has a highly technical title: "Vice President of the Higher War Council." More imposing sounds...