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...creation of a Ministry of Armaments, and the selection of efficient, inordinately hardworking, high strung, impulsive Raoul Dautry, 59, to head it. He reorganized France's rattletrap State Railways, sinking French Line, and stalled airline Aeropostale all at once. During the last war he built military rail lines. Foch called him "my railway ace." His job this time will be to make France one great arsenal to feed Commander in Chief Maurice Gamelin bullets faster than he can pump them into guns...
...Ruhr to try to squeeze reparations out of the Germans; to Syria to quell the Druses and give ancient Damascus its first organized street-sweeping service. From 1931 to 1935 he commanded the armies of France, for he was one cavalryman with brains, the "spiritual son" of the great Foch...
...riens, because he wanted to see some rough service, and three years with the Army's Geographical Service, because he liked to paint landscapes in water color, survey and map. In 1899 he was admitted to the War College, where he studied tactics under Lieut. Colonel, later Marshal Foch, who particularly noticed his qualities. He graduated in 1902 with the commendation of "très bien...
...take heavy losses, or counterattack on his flanks and, risking annihilation, take the chance of pulling his people out in comparative safety that night. He prepared to attack, moved his headquarters to the front, casually invited some British generals in to dinner-it was just before the emergency made Foch Supreme Allied Commander-watched his troops retreat in good order after dark. Then he got a new command made up of the 9th and another division, the remnants of two more, seven squadrons of French cavalry, one British cavalry division, took them into the joint British-French action that halted...
...good grey little General leads a good grey little life. Just before 9 o'clock each morning he leaves his apartment on the third floor of a five-story house at No. 55 Avenue Foch, near Paris' Arc de Triomphe. He is driven in a staff car to his office in a long, low, old-fashioned building at No. 4 bis Boulevard des Invalides, below the gold dome of Napoleon's tomb...