Word: foche
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among those backing the project are: Dr. Roux, head of the Pasteur Institute; Baronne Lajeune, Le Maréchal Foch, Mme. Louis Stern, Joseph Barthélemy, Dr. Alexander Bruno of the Rockefeller Institute and Professor Albert Calmette. Jean Stern, No. 18 Rue Octave Feuillet, Paris, is Treasurer...
Ferdinand Foch...
...Europe on the Baltic, with General Pershing. He had a commission as correspondent for the Times, which after a bit was made a roving commission. He wandered over Europe cultivating friends and harvesting interviews* in a way that was the envy of many less gifted correspondents. Pershing, Lloyd George, Foch, Northcliffe, Joffre, Clemenceau, King Constantine, Wilson were his material. The nature of his acquaintanceship with these men is well illustrated by such despatches as: "I met the Prime Minister, David Lloyd George, casually in Downing Street today. He was coming out from luncheon, and I asked him What he thought...
...late the country seems to have heard overmuch of such talk. The "notorious" peace plan, made more "notorious" by the addition of another 100,000 dollars, is still alive. In the past two years this country has welcomed many distinguished foreigners:- Marshall Foch, ex-premier Clemenceau, ex-premier Lloyd George, and others less famous. All of these have joined in a plea for better relations between men, and between nations. Now Sir Harry man of the people, coal-miner, humorist, and a father who has suffered the loss of his son in the Great War--comes, bringing the same message...
Although he had falsely prophesied that the German invasion in 1914 would come through the Vosges, his vast knowledge of military affairs made him worthy of a place on the Supreme War Council in 1920. His three associates were his maréchals, Joffre, Foch, Pétain...