Word: foche
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
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...
Among the very few Americans to be granted special audience by the Pope while the Cardinals-designate wait for their birettas were Mr. Isaac Gimbel and Mr. Charles Gimbel, owners of great stores. They came with a letter from Cardinal Dougherty of Philadelphia. Marshal Foch, a devout Catholic, also came to town...
Macbeth, James K. Hackett, hav-ing acquired the Legion of Honor for his single performance of Shakespeare's tragedy in Paris, presents Macbeth, now in Manhattan, seemingly, with all the might of the French Government behind him. He is like Foch at the Marne, standing immobile against the battering thrusts of fate. Apparently up to the climacteric point he has done nothing but shake his head like a lazy, shaggy lion, tossing the blows from him. And then like Foch he charges and turns the tide completely...