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...Marshall Foch will be at the Union some time during his trip to this country, which he intends to visit in November in order to be present at the Armistice celebration of the American Legion. He was unable to come last year, and General Fayolle was the representative of the French Government...
...holds, the Governing Board has decided on a somewhat more elaborate program for 1921-22 than that followed this year. It has also arranged to have many distinguished men as speakers. As matters now stand, for nothing can be considered definite at such an early date, Marshal Foch, John W. Davis, former Ambassador to England, Irvin S. Cobb, J. C. Squires of the "London Mercury", Alfred E. Zimmern, English historian, and the Indian Strongheart will be among the men who will make addresses...
...decomposition of Germany,--for which Foch and his followers are striving,--would drive her into the arms of Russia and force a Russo-German coalition. Europe can only be saved by allowing Germany to live,--her old powerful position need not be given back to her,--but enough strength must be left her to prevent a Russian supremacy in Europe. A healthy Germany will work for the reconstruction of Europe; a sick Germany must seek help through Russia...
...more time than was allowed in the Versailles pact--Germany was to have been disarmed, finds her still bristling with soldiers masquerading as ponce and civic guards. Although such trickery is not dangerous at present, it will soon become so if allowed to continue unchecked. The fact that Marshal Foch has planned within the last two weeks a line of defense on the French border and a strategic point of march into Germany is decidedly significant. One does not wait for a smouldering fire to break into flames before making any effort to quench...
General Fayolle needs no introduction to Harvard. He is the man who led the first American troops over the top; he is Marshal Foch's personal emissary in this country; it was he who perfected the barrage method of artillery support. General Fayolle is a man of action. Men of action have things to say that are worth saying. Tonight's address will be the only one which he will make in an American University or in New England. By his presence today General Fayolle does honor to the University...