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...such stuff as "Again, Altman"? The list of Bible chapters recommended by him for study condemns him as nothing else could. People are judged by the company they keep (human or literary). That regular HE-men can be Christian Gentlemen is strongly illustrated in the lives of Generals Foch, Pershing, Summerall, Lejeune, and many others...
General Summerall gave a detailed account of the engagement in which McKinlock lost his life. At the height of the German advance in the spring of 1918 Marshal Foch began to gather his forces for a counter advance. The first division of Americans was with the tenth French army which was in the van of the new forces thrown in the way of the victorious enemy. McKinlock was with the first division as a brigade staff officer and was scouting the German lines on intelligence duty when he fell. His death did not come, however, until he had rendered important...
Nearly 500,000 men, women and children lined the streets to see the ambassador-conqueror on his way to the city's official reception, on the day when Marshal Ferdinand Foch said to him: "Come right next to me and stand very straight, so that the whole world can see-that you are bigger than I am." Captain Lindbergh blushed, crouched...
...like a football crowd on the tiers of a stadium, beneath a classic portico and around a towering monument of Winged Victory, stand the leaders of the French nation-Marshal Joffre in the centre, "Tiger" Clémenceau, arms crossed, four-square with hands behind his back, with Marshal Foch close by, brooding alone at one side; President Poincaré, expectant, surrounded by frock-coated colleagues...
...what conveyance was General Foch seated when he signed the Armistice...