Word: foche
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Gaston Doumergue, President of France and Grand Master of the Order of the Legion of Honor, was received by General Dubail, Grand Chancellor; General Nollet, Minister of War; Marshals of France Foch and Joffre, in full-dress uniform, U. S. Ambassador Myron T. Herrick, in full evening dress, when he arrived at the Palace of the Legion of Honor on the Quai d'Orsay...
Although he had won the War by virtue of holding the unified command of all the Entente armies fighting in France, Marshal Foch was deprived of any power at the Paris Peace Conference. He could make speeches, say what ought to be done and what ought not to be done, but that was all. With all his might he counselled France to extend her northeast frontier to the historic and natural boundary of the Rhine; but the anti-Catholic Clemenceau, no lover of Catholic Foch, would not listen. Indeed, Clemenceau would not listen to much more that the Marshal said...
...Marshal Foch survived these ordeals with a name that suffered no diminution of its greatness, as his visit to the U. S. and Canada in 1921 so well testified. His position today is in the nature of a technical adviser to the Allied Governments on military matters arising out of the Versailles Treaty and as such he is Chairman of the Inter-Allied Military Commission. Although he is in active service (as are all Marshals of France) at the age of 73, he is not Commander-in-Chief of the French Army; that honor belonging to Marshal Petain...
Like his comrade General Castelnau (whom many say is the greater soldier), Marshal Foch is a devout Catholic, but unlike him he does not mix in politics. M. Castelnau has been an administrator, a tactician. Foch is the theorist, the strategist. Castelnau organized the mobilization system that worked so wonderfully for France at the begin- ning of the War; he saved Nancy, which Foch was apparently unable to do; he saved Verdun, which Petain could not do. Foch became the greater general because, although a Catholic, he kept his political opinions to himself, which Castelnau...
...Inter-Allied Military Commission was appointed in 1919 by the Supreme War Council to see that Germany observed the disarmament provisions of the Treaty of Versailles. -The present French Marshals are: Joffre, Foch, Lyautey, Fayolle, Franchet, d'Esperey, Petain...