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...Spartan order of the day in the U. S. Embassy at Paris last week, when three most solemn funeral orations were pronounced over the flag-draped coffin of Myron Timothy Herrick of Cleveland, beloved and glamor-crowned Ambassador. Greatly impressed by the fact that the late Marshal Ferdinand Foch ordered "No flowers!" (TIME, April 1), Mr. Herrick said when his own death drew nigh, "I also want no flowers...
...foreign power received in France this military homage. With a nice discrimination, however, President Gaston Doumergue was present only by proxy. A nearly inflexible protocol decrees that the President personally attend only the funerals of highest dignitaries of state-and thus far the rule has been broken only for Ferdinand Foch...
When the Germans had finally withdrawn Ferdinand Foch exclaimed: "Now my son and my son-in-law [killed in the War] are avenged...
...most astounding application of these principles was the complete reversal of the Allied plan of campaign in 1918, when Ferdinand Foch was given supreme command as Generalissimo. So irresistible seemed the German advance in those black days that the Allies were preparing to abandon Paris...
Died. General Maurice Paul Emmanuel Sarrail, 72, of Paris, Wartime hero, onetime Commander in Chief of France's Oriental Army, onetime High Commissioner in Syria; in Paris, three days after the death of his superior officer, Marshal Ferdinand Foch (see p. 26). At the first Battle of the Marne, General Sarrail recaptured Verdun and the Meuse heights. A radical-socialist, his military career was much affected by political disfavor. In Syria (1925), dynamic as ever, he suddenly shelled rebellious sections of Damascus, reputedly killing 500 persons, including women and children, arousing worldwide protest. At his deathbed was famed Lieutenant...