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Inside the Quai d'Orsay, in a gilded council chamber, a group of men awaited the coming of Marshal Foch and Premier Edouard Herriot. They were the Ambassadors and Ministers of the late Allied Powers and had come for a meeting of the Council of Ambassadors*, which was to consider a report from the Inter-Allied Military Commission † of which Marshal Foch is Chairman...
Presently a number of chairs skidded slightly along the soft carpet as the sitters stood up to welcome the Premier and the Marshal. Premier Herriot, marching to the head of a long council table, requested the company to be seated. Marshal Foch placed a large portfolio of documents on the table and sat down...
Premier Herriot, as Chairman, called the meeting to order and stated that the Council had been convoked to hear a report from Marshal Foch on the state of German armaments as discovered by the Military Commission toward the end of last year. He called upon the Marshal to read his report...
...treaty of security for France should be negotiated with British Powers (see INTERNATIONAL). Lord Crewe, British Ambassador to France, blocked further discussion with the cryptic remark that the Marshal's report did not constitute what was wanted. It was subsequently agreed by the assembled Ambassadors that M. Foch should prepare another report setting forth categorically the extent of Germany's violations of the disarmament provisions of the Treaty and make specific recommendations to oblige Germany to fulfill her technical defaultations...
Ferdinand Foch, like his soldier colleagues Marshal Joffre and General Castelnau, is from the Midi (South--not to be confused with the feminine midinette). It was at Tarbes in Gascony, under the shade of the Pyrenees, at 10 o'clock on the night of Oct. 2, 1851, that the future generalissimo of the Entente Armies was born. It was two months before Prince Louis Napoleon made his famed coup d'etat...