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...last seven years of his life Marshal Ferdinand Foch with his pincenez perched on his nose, sat in his little office in the top of the Hotel des Invalides covering long sheets of foolscap with his precise schoolmaster's handwriting. He was writing his memoirs. Historians and editors who hoped that these piles of paper might help solve the problem of War Guilt, define the exact value of U. S. troops in the victory, state the real contribution of the Commander-in-Chief, chafed at the thought that by the cautious Marshal's wish the book...
Soon the Rinehart finances were in good shape; the Rineharts could afford to go abroad. Mrs. Rinehart could even afford such extravagances as buying "a sixteenth of a gold mine which never developed." When the War came she was sent abroad by the Literary Digest. She met notables: Foch, Queen Mary of England, King Albert of the Belgians. She went into the trenches, into No-Man's Land. She came back and wrote it up guardedly. When the U. S. went in, Dr. Rinehart and the two eldest boys enlisted; Mrs. Rinehart finally managed to be sent over...
...will be interesting to compare the memoirs of Marshall Foch, released today, with those of Pershing, now appearing in "The New York Times". The two generals, so closely associated with each other and yet so divergent in their opinions, are giving their last defenses. Foch will speak no longer while Pershing can have little more...
...Damn your brother!" he roared, and upon this broadminded basis Foch accepted the Tiger's flattering offer. Later, on one of Clemenceau's famed dashes to the front, he arrived at the headquarters of the Generalissimo, only to be told that Foch was kneeling in a nearby tent at Mass...
...Foch. The success of "Max" in this respect was so great that he began to lose his well won reputation as a fighter. Appealing to his "spiritual father" for a real chance to fight again, he was sent to Poland,where to he vindicated his military genius by directing the successful Polish resistance to the Bolshevist armies...