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...November Succumbed the Criminal Pride of the German Empire, Vanquished by the Free Peoples Which it Tried to Enslave. For Car 2419D an American built a concrete hall. And at one end of the clearing, commanding its whole expanse, was erected a 17-foot marble statue of Marshal Foch...
...Burgundy, Louis XVI received his Queen Marie-Antoinette and Napoleon met his bride, Marie-Louise of Austria. In a railway car in the Forest of Compiègne, 22 years ago last Nov. 11, a delegation of Germans signed an armistice dictated by France's Marshal Ferdinand Foch. In that same railway car, 2419D, at 6: 50 p.m. last June 22, a delegation of Frenchmen signed an armistice dictated by Germany's Colonel General Wilhelm Keitel...
Only one thing was left in the clearing: the statue of Marshal Foch. Perhaps, because the Marshal was a soldier, the Nazis meant to leave him there and let the forest grow up around...
...Every morning, for two hours at Army Head quarters in Athens, he had conferred intently with Premier General "Little John" Metaxas. His enemies derided General Papagos as "Little John's" Papagei (parrot), overlooking the fact that the relationship between the two men is much like the Foch-Weygand relation: master and disciple...
Presently the Free French escort vessels Savorgnan de Brazza and Commandant Dominé steamed into Libreville harbor and General de Gaulle broadcast from nearby Leopoldville: "Gabon has been on the side of the Free French forces since yesterday. . . . Marshal Foch and the eleventh of November are connected in our memory with the glory of victory...