Word: foche
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Within the past six months in France a great equestrian statue of Marshal Foch was unveiled at Cassel, a monumental figure of Marshal Joffre at Chantilly. On both occasions, art critics and a large section of the French press howled in derision, said that the monuments were blots on the landscape. The French Ministry of Beaux Arts suddenly sided with the critics last week, announced that no contract would be awarded, all designs and models would be returned, in the contest for a monument to perpetuate the memory of the Battle of the Marne. Reason: there is no living sculptor...
...Cabinet Ministers. This exception was especially inserted to prevent the return to Germany of great Matthias Erzberger's assassins, Schultz and Tillessen who, after murdering him on Aug. 26. 1921 escaped to Hungary. It was Herr Erzberger who signed the terms of Armistice handed him by Marshal Foch and became undeservedly "The Best Hated Man in Germany." As Chancellor of the Exchequer directly after the War, he wrested his country's railways from the numerous German states, established and coordinated the national railway of the Reich, today a model of speed and punctuality...
...What, my gallant Marshal, . . . were you so afraid of my counterthrust? Or had it occurred to you that if, as was probable, I died before you, I should for ever have remained post mortem, under the weighty burden of your accusations? . . . Ah, Foch! Foch! . . . What a stain on your memory that you had to wait so many years to give vent to childish recriminations against me through the agency of another, who, whatever his merits, knew not the War as you and I lived...
History may add a line to this quarrel, a line setting forth that Atheist Clémenceau and Catholic Foch kept their differences from exploding at the time, won together the victory of world's greatest grandeur...
Misere. It is Clémenceau's thesis that ever since his hand left the helm French statesmen have been steadily leading their country down the road of misery, throwing away with both hands what he won at Versailles, and simultaneously blaming him for not having won more. Foch, for example, maintained that Clémenceau should have persuaded the Peace Conference to set the eastern frontier of France at the Rhine...