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Rather than try to think up super-scorching things to say about Foch's spiritual son, the editor of L'Oeuvre (Radical) merely quoted these words from Clemenceau : "Weygand is a dangerous man, capa ble in moments of crisis of going...
...Papist!" stormed leading French news-organs of the Left last week at brilliant, bowlegged little General Max Weygand. He is as good a Roman Catholic as was his patron Marshal Ferdinand Foch who used to speak of him as "Max, my spiritual son." Last week as the climax of a long and masterly campaign of military intrigue (TIME, Jan. 13, 1930), General Weygand forced out Marshal Pétain and assumed the office which carries with it supreme command of the French Army. This office has a highly technical title: "Vice President of the Higher War Council." More imposing sounds...
...Clemenceau who called Foch to the supreme command. On that historic occasion General Foch shifted uneasily in his chair, then blurted out: "I don't suppose you know that I have a brother who is a Jesuit...
...great commanders on the Western Front, Death has come to Foch and Joffre of France, French and Haig of Britain. Petain remains as military chief...
...trouble in the Chamber last week about the cost of burying Joffre: 300,000 francs ($11,700).** One-third of this sum was for ripping up from the streets along the funeral route and laying down again the "safety islands." These were ripped up & laid down for Foch-the object being that the Hero's body should pass straight up the centre of the way. But how many times is this gesture to be made-so grand, so spacious, so magnificently French? In Paris last week there was a growing undercurrent of opinion that the safety islands should hereafter...