Word: foche
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most astounding application of these principles was the complete reversal of the Allied plan of campaign in 1918, when Ferdinand Foch was given supreme command as Generalissimo. So irresistible seemed the German advance in those black days that the Allies were preparing to abandon Paris...
...Paris!" cried Foch when he assumed supreme command, "Paris has nothing to do with this matter! Paris is far away. We must stop the Germans where they are. We have only to say 'They shall not pass!' and they will not pass. . . . Three-fourths of the battle is won when the men know they are not going to retreat...
...Father Germain Foch S. J. survives Marshal Foch...
Mulino von Kluck, 17, tall, blue-eyed, blonde, granddaughter of the General whose advance on Paris was rolled back by Foch at the Marne (see p. 26), has gone into cinema. Her first part will be in 1813, a film about Germany's liberation from the grip of Napoleon. She will, she says, never visit Paris...
Died. General Maurice Paul Emmanuel Sarrail, 72, of Paris, Wartime hero, onetime Commander in Chief of France's Oriental Army, onetime High Commissioner in Syria; in Paris, three days after the death of his superior officer, Marshal Ferdinand Foch (see p. 26). At the first Battle of the Marne, General Sarrail recaptured Verdun and the Meuse heights. A radical-socialist, his military career was much affected by political disfavor. In Syria (1925), dynamic as ever, he suddenly shelled rebellious sections of Damascus, reputedly killing 500 persons, including women and children, arousing worldwide protest. At his deathbed was famed Lieutenant...