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Onetime British Soldier Aldington disagrees with the late great French Soldier Foch. Foch was usually wise enough to stick to his horizon-blue muttons, but once hazarded the opinion that the heroic soldier's reward was glory. In these 13 stories Aldington gives various examples of the soldier's reward. In the light of the title, all are bitterly satirical. Some of them...
Clemenceau was the "Tiger," the atheist, the master. Foch was the strategist, the Catholic, the messiah of battle whose military vision seemed to come at times from a Supernatural Power. Also a Catholic,* also at times a masterful man, Joffre could fail of the highest achievements and yet be loved, as a father who has not wholly succeeded is loved by his children. On Jan. 12, 1852, to a mother who bore eleven children, the future Marshal Joffre was born at Rivesaltes in the eastern Pyrenees. In 1870 Joffre took a student's furlough from the École Polytechnique...
...Name: Foch Von Stronheim...
...often does in French barber shops, the talk turned upon books. Papa said that the War book he likes best is Le Mémorial de Foch by Raymond Recouly, next best, La Bataille du Jutland by Captain George von Hase. The barber, eager to show himself wellread, observed, "From their books it is certainly evident that Foch and Clemenceau did not like each other...
Instantly Papa bristled. He too had to fight under the irascible Tiger of France. "Foch," he snapped, "was right! Clemenceau-" but the Marshal did not finish. He knew a newshawk was listening. He has vowed that his memoirs shall not be published until after he is dead. Therefore he slipped back into his character of "Papa," concluded urbanely as snippets of whiskers fell all around, "Yes, Foch was right, but [shrugging his sheet-covered shoulders] soldiers and politicians are not always made by the Good God to get along with each other...