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From now on, Marshal Foch and the other Marshals of France will receive 75,000 francs ($3,000) a year; French lieutenants will get 6,000 francs ($325) a year; and the ordinary French poilu is to receive one franc a day (about...
Last week a notable scandal developed when a group of bourgeois sadists set out from Bordeaux to the little town of Bombon, once the seat of Marshal Foch's General Staff, and there flogged an alleged recalcitrant member of their cult, the Abbé des Noyers...
...ever seen a god on earth or even dared to dream of seeing one! Yet this is just what we have experienced. . . . Foch, the victor, went about Paris in uniform almost unnoticed; when Hindenburg, the vanquished, rode out, millions drunk with adoration were ready to strain their muscles to draw his carriage through the streets...
...World War found him an old man, supposedly retired from public life, but known all over France for his incessant warnings against the armed menace of Germany. France turned to him. As Premier and War Minister he hounded such spies as Bolo Pasha to death, championed Foch and rushed out to the fighting front every few days to see how things were going for himself. At that period he had one motto, one battle cry: "Je fais la guerre. Je fais la guerre. Je fais la guerre...
...Foch has written an inscription on the picture "A L'universitie Harvard" and signed 'Foch.' Charles Coolidge '17 has had the picture framed...