Word: foche
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...silent films at a local movie palace. One afternoon they went into "Bugle Call Rag" as Tom Mix ran down the rustlers, and Dave North was sailing into his fourteenth piano chorus when trombonist Floyd O'Brien glanced up at the screen. The newsreel had come on and Marshal Foch was laying a wreath on the tomb of the unknown soldier...
...They could train better under their own men; they would not become infected with the Allies' pessimism. A victorious American Army would give the nation prestige at the peace table, he thought. The U.S. must keep its own military tradition; there would be other wars. Foch, Clemenceau, Lloyd George bickered and bargained, Wilson and Baker backed their man up. Pershing won his point. The American forces trained and fought as a unit...
Back to Bazaine. Twenty-five years passed before Bazaine's military views reappeared in France. The debacle of 1870 led the disgusted French to put their faith in those who, like Foch, were fanatical believers in the "offensive at all costs." But Bazaine's faith in the defensive, says Author Guedalla, became the faith of Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain-the old man through whom "the abject philosophy of salvation by surrender . . . prevailed" in 1940, who "consummated a surrender far beyond the basest imputations of Bazaine's accusers...
...taken to ascertain their loyalties. But the fundamental solution of the problem can be secured not merely through frontier rectifications; Russia must be given security from aggression by an establishment of that collective security for which Maxim Litvinov waged a fruitless battle throughout the Thirties. In 1919, Clemenceau and Foch gave up their demands to German territory for an Anglo-American promise to institute an effective system for main-taining peace; that promise was not kept. At the end of World War II, Russia may be expected to cooperate with the United Nations only if guaranteed a peace system that...
...beyond, who had never been a mealymouth in his prime, sounded exactly like young Lloyd George. He recalled Admiral Jellicoe ("an obstinate man . . . fundamentally weak, he did not even carry out orders when they were given to him"), Herbert Asquith ("no war minister . . . able, but no man of action"), Foch ("simple, honorable, and absolutely fearless"), Bonar Law ("not a man of action"), Ramsay MacDonald ("too timid"), and "Blockhead (Stanley) Baldwin." On Britain's conduct of the current war: "I sometimes wonder what we are doing. Here we are in the fourth year...