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...problems of "War Guilt" that beset other historians did not exist for Marshal Foch. So far as he was concerned Prussia started the War in a spirit of commercial greed. The entire subject is dismissed in three pages. At the same time he blandly admits that from 1885 to 1915 he was preparing for the coming struggle, visiting France's allies, preparing plans of attack and defense. His leave in Brittany was suddenly cut short one week before Germany delivered her ultimatum to Belgium. In the same way the political problems of the War itself did not concern him. Politicians...
Everyone knows that before the outbreak of hostilities Foch was a valued instructor, later commandant of the French War College. Most U. S. citizens have forgotten what he did between 1914 and 1918 when he became Commander-in-Chief. At the beginning of the War he had command of the 20th Army Corps between Toul and Nancy. His adjutant was a little slant-eyed terrier of a man, Lieut.-Col. Max Weygand. Faithful Wey- gand never left him, carries on today as Vice-President of the Higher War Council, highest peacetime post...
During the retreat before the Marne, Foch was given command of the 9th Army. Through the battle of the Marne (for which Foch gives full credit to Papa Joffre) he held this command, shared with the 4th Army the brunt of the German attack. After the Marne, Foch became assistant to Joffre, held this position until he went into temporary political banishment with the appointment of Nivelle as French Commander-in-Chief. In 1917 Foch became Chief of the French General Staff, made a flying visit to Italy to rally the Italian armies fleeing from Caporetto. In January...
...Foch memoirs have little space to devote to the U. S. Army. He insisted that he always favored U. S. troops fighting as a unit under their own commander, made no reference to the bickerings with General Pershing which the latter has been reporting daily in the U. S. press. The Battle of St. Mihiel (a U. S. show) he considered "a splendid success." But he was critical of the Argonne advance...
Stories of the brutality with which he has been accused of receiving German delegates to the Armistice, Marshal Foch did not trouble to deny or defend. Metic- ulously he described the details of that fateful meeting on a railway siding in the forest of Compiegne?in the third person. The last ten years of the Marshal's life, he dismissed in one sentence, the last in the book...