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Months ago a group of British and U. S. correspondents waited day after day in a draughty courtyard in the Rue de Crenelle playing cards, drinking beer, arguing, squabbling, waiting for Marshal Foch to die. Last week the identical men were waiting in another courtyard, across the Seine in the Rue Franklin beneath the window of Georges Clémenceau...
...FOCH SPEAKS-Major Charles Bugnet -Dial...
During his last eight years the late, great Foch was attended by Aide-de-Camp Bugnet, an efficient, obedient soldier, now an author who tries to reveal not Marshal Foch but Monsieur Foch. From the nature of the man as well as the Boswell, one could scarcely expect a record of daily life and opinions comparable in readability with, for example, Jean Jacques Brousson's record of Foch's brother-Academician, Anatole France. It was inevitable that people must learn that Foch's "private life was irreproachable" and that he considered "born believers" the world...
This is the first, and one may hope worst, memoir of "the single individual who contributed most to the ending of the World War." If Foch was as Foch Speaks he was heroically inarticulate...
Died. Father Germain Foch, 75, of Paris, Jesuit Priest, brother of the late great Marshal Ferdinand Foch; in Paris...