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...other "Immortals" of the French Academy to give the advice of an old soldier upon what new words should be included in the French language and how the definitions of old ones might be clarified. Beside Joseph Jacques Joffre sat that other great Marshal and "Immortal" Ferdinand Foch. Men of the sword, they were silent while the scholarly academicians debated the rules of pencraft...
...Marshal sat down amid a hush. Bobby is evidently still dear to him, for his head sank upon his breast and he did not look up at first when Marshal Foch rose smilingly to relate an anecdote...
Jagged Edges. Foreign Minister Aristide Briand of France, anxious to conciliate, was hampered by the report made at Paris last week by Marshal Foch that Germany has not entirely fulfilled her disarmament obligations under the Versailles Treaty. (Specifically German forts on the Polish frontier have been strengthened instead of dismantled; and the secret training of young men for military service has not entirely ceased.) The Allied Council of Ambassadors, administering the Versailles Treaty, telegraphed M. Briand at Geneva that they would only indorse the substitution of League control for military control if the German Foreign Minister would give positive assurance...
...making concessions by a curious hue and cry that British industry languishes while German workers are busy turning out "half-finished arms and arms parts" which are sold to Russia or shipped to Sweden for completion and thence to Russia, China, etc. It was a pat coincidence that the Foch report was sprung and the British "half-finished arms" scare was popped while Premier Poincare and Chancellor Churchill of the British Exchequer were hobnobbing together in Paris?for these statesmen both oppose the conciliatory attitude toward Germany of Premier Briand and Sir Austen Chamberlain...
...positively affirms that the Allied military control of German disarmament will be withdrawn on Jan. 31, 1927, and replaced by the supervision of a League of Nations investigating commission, as envisaged in Article 213 of the Versailles Treaty. 2) The instances of German failure to disarm cited in the Foch report will be settled by negotiation among the Powers, and should this fail will be referred to the Council of the League of Nations. 3) Ad interim all work on the German forts along the Polish frontier shall stop. 4) The present Allied military commissioners in Germany will be permitted...