Word: foche
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...Cruiser Foch, M. Daladier proceeded to Algiers, where Arab chieftains and Zouave and Spahi detachments accompanied him to a monument for Algerian War dead. Here M. Daladier summed up the impressions of his trip: "The Colonials are French-they will stay French...
...author (An Actor Prepares, My Life and Art), teacher and philosopher. Once he summed up: "My work with the artist is to open his eyes to . . . those things that must be developed out of his own soul." Died. Edmund Charles Tarbell, 76, portrait painter of such bigwigs as Marshal Foch, Wilson, Coolidge, Hoover; of portal cirrhosis; at New Castle...
Meanwhile Schuschnigg. Jesuit fathers correctly judged Kurt Schuschnigg in his boyhood to have the character of a great fighting Catholic, such as, for example, Ferdinand Foch. Schuschnigg, Jesuit-trained, brilliant and devout, fought in the World War right up to the Armistice, at which time he laid down his arms on Austria's Italian front. It was then, as Dr. Schuschnigg has bitterly complained in his memoirs, that some Scottish soldiers who had been aiding the Italians took not only his rifle and ammunition but also his watch, his ring and his pocketbook. After this he never again felt...
...Napoleon (when he said an unnecessary maneuver, no matter how brilliant, was criminal), in Washington, in Clausewitz, in General Hagood, in Colonel Lawrence, who regretted a victorious battle because he knew the enemy would have surrendered in a few days without one. But the militaristic point of view (exemplars: Foch, Weygand, Leonard Wood) leads to situations like the Dreyfus case; to the preservation of archaic customs like dueling in the German army; to the inflexible employment of traditional tactics when new situations have made them dangerous, such as the use of cavalry early in the World...
...Maria Remarque's book brutally picture the universal bewilderment at the War's end. Author Remarque describes his soldiers' return to their humdrum homes as a tragic surprise they cannot comprehend. Director James Whale, who adds in the film the signing of the Armistice in Marshal Foch's railway car, visions their homecoming as both tragic and comic...