Word: foch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Introduced by Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, who served as moderator, C. Crane Brinton '19, associate professor of History, started the national town meeting by calling for inter-allied co-operation in defeating the centralized aggressor. "We must not wait four years for a second Foch," he said. At the same time, the home front must see individual advantage subordinated to the common good...
...Even in the last war, Marshal Petain was a great pessimist," stated William Hermanns, in a Current Events talk at New Lecture Hall yesterday afternoon. To illustrate his point, Hermanns read passages from books by Clemenceau and Foch which showed that Petain lacked self-confidence...
...both cases he neglects with no more than a passing scoff the maxim that an attack cannot be made with a reasonable hope of success unless a number of calculable and near-calculable military factors weigh on the side of the attacker. He cites his favorite General, Foch, who sent a marvelous message to the bumbling "Papa" Joffre before the First Battle of the Marne stating that his center, his right, and his left were in terrible shape, that the situation was excellent, and that he was attacking. He forgets, it would appear, that the situation was excellent only because...
...Colonel Kernan's formula for victory is a return to the slashing tactics of Napoleon, Wellington, Marshal Foch (whose Conduct of War he has translated).* His battle slogan is the famed dispatch from Foch at the First Battle of the Marne: "My right is exposed, my left is heavily attacked, my center is unable to hold its position, I cannot redistribute my forces. The situation is excellent. I shall attack...
...Weygand had pledged his word to one policy, and sealed it by accepting U.S. aid. He had pledged his loyalty to a chief who had now chosen another policy. General Weygand was, above all, a soldier whose first loyalty was to his chief-whether that chief was the indomitable Foch or the plastic Pétain. Maxime Weygand resigned...