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What was the age of Foch at the First Marne, when he said in effect, "My right is falling back; my left has been destroyed. I shall attack with my center"? Over 60, as I recall...
Roar followed roar from all parts of the harbor as ship after ship exploded. German troops raced for the Vauban Basin where the battleship Dunkerque had been tied up for repairs since the British attack on Oran in July 1940. Near by were the cruisers Algérie, Foch and Jean de Vienne; their docks were wrecked with them. Earth and air trembled as the beautiful ships destroyed themselves...
...made war had devised firepower so great that they no longer understood it, and so they had gone to earth like animals, in trenches 500 miles long. When the Americans joined the war, all the Allies wanted was more infantry-more men to hurl against the enemy. Foch wanted to spread these men along the whole front; Pershing fought to build an American Army, and succeeded. "This," says General Fuller, "was not only a victory for Pershing, but also for the Allied cause, for had the readjustment proposed by Foch been agreed upon ... in all probability the war would have...
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...