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France. The German offer was received in Paris with expected skepticism. "Of what use," said Frenchmen, "will another scrap of paper be?" At the same time, Le Marechal Foch presented his report to the Council of Ambassadors (see Page 9). The Marshal tacitly admitted that, if Germany wished to arm, the Inter-Allied Military Commission could not stop her; hence it appeared to him that a defensive alliance with England-long a topic in London and Paris-seemed the logical way to provide for lasting security. This was an admission that the control machinery, set up after the Versailles Treaty...
...military clauses of the Treaty, according to Marshal Foch, have now been largely defeated and the impossibility of preventing Germany from arming is now clear...
Died. Gabriel Foch, 75, elder brother of Marshal Foch; in Tarbes, France...
Around a lavishly decorated board, were seated U. S. Ambassador Myron T. Herrick, Emile Daeschner (recently appointed Ambassador-designate to the U. S.), le maréchal Foch, Jules Cambon (onetime Ambassador to Germany), General Gouraud (Military Governor of Paris), Sheldon Whitehouse (U. S. Counselor of Embassy) and Mrs. Whitehouse, U. S. Consul General and Mrs. Robert Skinner, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Goelet of Manhattan, and many another...
Today, including the above elections, there are 37 members, among the most important of whom are: Litterateurs: Joseph Bédier, Paul Bourget, Marcel Prevost, Henri de Regnier; Statesmen: Louis Barthou, Georges Clemenceau, Raymond Poincaré, Jules Cambon; Soldiers: Les Maréchals Ferdinand Foch, Joseph Joffre, Louis Lyautey; Artists: Albert Besnard (the only one) ; Journalist: Georges Lecomte; Educator: Emile Picard...