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...present six men hold batons of Marshals of France: Generals Joffre. Foch, Lyautey, Fayolle, Franchet d'Esperey, Petain...
France. Premier Herriot found it necessary to rush to Paris in order to get his Cabinet's endorsement of his policies. While in the Capital he created much gossip by consulting with Marshal Foch, but, as the Premier said, he did not care to take final action without consulting the highest military authority in France...
...Security to be discussed at the League and no longer to be connected with France's occupation of the Ruhr. It was understood that Marshal Foch had said that retention of the Ruhr by France was useless from a security viewpoint...
During the election campaign, ex-Premier Paul Painlevé, pacifist, academician, the man reputed to have favored pacifism during the War, yet took such delight in claiming responsibility for the appointment of le maréchal Foch to supreme command of the French Army that he wrote a book about it, this man was reported in the Écho de Paris to have said: "Citoyens! The bloc National is the cause of all our national calamities. ... I am French, but I am European. . . . Liberty, fraternity, socialism! . . . Peace with Soviet Russia! . . . Above all peace with republican and pacific Germany...
...between Belgium and France, the results of which were summed up by M. Hymans, Belgian Foreign Minister:" Everything is going well toward a full agreement on the reparations question"; and by Louis Bar-thou, Chairman of the Reparations Commission: "Look at the smile on the face of le marechal Foch and you can guess all." Belgium. In addition to the conference with France there was an-other with Britain, the results of which were said to be important, but about which much reserve was evinced in official quarters. Britain. The so-called " Truce of God"- has given the Labor Government...