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...Marshall Foch, who visited the University in 1921, has presented the library with a picture. The Farnsworth Room has been chosen as being the most appropriate place in which the picture could be hung, because the subject is one dealing with the war. Different soldiers, representing different wars in French history are shown seated on a bench with room for just one more. A Pollu, holding an olive branch behind his back, bows to the assemblage, and a caption below reads -- "Vous permettez-les anciens?" Jean Droit is the artist...
...Allied answer was despatched by the Council of Ambassadors at Paris, which is charged with carrying out the terms of the Versailles Treaty. At a special session, hastily summoned, Marchal Foch and other Allied military experts sanctioned the termination of Allied military surveillance in the Rhineland. The Government of the Reich was officially informed that Cologne would be evacuated on Dec. 1, and that the Allied civil administration of the Rhineland would be terminated in the immediate future...
...rumored that Maréchal Pétain, copying the strategy employed by Foch in his final drive against the Germans in 1918, had been concentrating his forces first at one point and then at another, and was now about to consolidate the points of vantage in a final drive upon the heights of Bribane, which would sweep on until Abd-el-Krim surrendered...
...regarded as certain that Maréchal Pétain will strengthen his present formidable line into, an impregnable winter position rather than attempt to gain an immediate victory. In Paris talk of Foch and 1918 has subsided...
...these reasons, immediately after the Armistice, I recommended in effect that this division be sent home first of all American troops, that they be sent home in all honor, but, above all, that they be sent quick. The answer came that Marshal Foch would not, pending peace, approve the transfer of any division back to the United States. In answer, I told the American headquarters to say to Marshal Foch that no man could be respon sible for the acts of these Negroes toward French women, and that he had better send this division home at once. This brought...