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...November 1932 he demanded the re-election of Herbert Hoover, declared that if President Hoover had not stood "as courageously as stood Foch at Verdun"-the Democrats "would have put us off the gold basis and the bony arm of the skeleton of Inflation would today be filching value from every savings bank account, every insurance policy and every wage envelope...
...AMERICAN JITTERS-Edmund Wilson-Scribner ($2.50). EXPRESSION IN AMERICA - Ludwig Lewisohn-Harper ($4). DEATH IN THE AFTERNOON-Ernest Hemingway-Scribner ($3.50). FOCH- Capt. B. H. Liddell Hart- Little, Brown ($4). GEORGE GERSHWIN'S SONGBOOK - illustrated by Alajalov - Simon & ($5)- GROVER CLEVELAND - Allan Nevins Dodd, Mead ($5). HISTORY OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION, Vol. I. - Leon Trotsky - Simon & Schuster ($4). INTERPRETATIONS - Walter Lippmann Macmillan ($2.50). JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU - Matthew Josephson - Harcourt, Brace ($5). THE JOURNAL OF ARNOLD BENNETT Vols. I & II- Viking ($4 each). THE LETTERS OF D. H. LAWRENCE edited by Aldous Huxley - Viking ($5). LIVES - Gustav Eckstein - Harper...
...Marshal Foch, took his seat as an "Immortal" but the ludicrous thing that occurred was not made known. Passed a decent interval. Last week Paris was at length permitted to chuckle hugely over what le petit General said when he took his seat. "Messieurs!" cried General Weygand in such ringing, parade ground tones that even aged, deaf Immortals had no need to cup hand to ear, "Messieurs, I had pre pared a speech of more than six pages* to thank you for the honor you have done me, but I left it on my study table...
...death was no surprise to his few real friends. Death, to Aristide Briand, meant the end. Like Fighter Clemenceau, Pacifier Briand had a minimum of belief in God and a future life, if he could be said to have any. Of the French Wartime "Big Three" only Marshal Ferdinand Foch went devout and confident to a Catholic's eternal life beyond the grave...
When trench warfare forced the French generals to revise their Fochian formula, the real grind of modern war began. These were dark times for Foch. His son and son-in-law had been killed. He himself fell out of favor, was retired by Joffre from command of the Northern Group of Armies. Not until the throes of disaster led the Allies to appoint him their supreme commander could his faith burn openly where all could see and feel. "Materially, I do not see that victory is possible. Morally I am certain that we shall gain it." The Author. Born...