Word: foche
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
...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...
...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...
...Foch has written an inscription on the picture "A L'universitie Harvard" and signed 'Foch.' Charles Coolidge '17 has had the picture framed...
...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...