Word: franchet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Inter-Allied Military Commission was appointed in 1919 by the Supreme War Council to see that Germany observed the disarmament provisions of the Treaty of Versailles. -The present French Marshals are: Joffre, Foch, Lyautey, Fayolle, Franchet, d'Esperey, Petain...
...present six men hold batons of Marshals of France: Generals Joffre. Foch, Lyautey, Fayolle, Franchet d'Esperey, Petain...
...many friends; these friends started a verbal rumpus to have him made a Marshal of France. The friends of General Michel de Castelnau, also numerous, heard the faint hubbub of Sarrailites and started a campaign to have their hero made a Marshal of France. When Generals Fayolle and Franchet d'Esperey were given the batons of a marshal, General de Castelnau was one of the disappointed Generals. His friends declared that the authorities had slighted him be cause of his well-known Royalist sympathies. At the same time, they were able to prove that the able General had served...
...with the Allies. Karolyi either surrounded himself, or, more probably was surrounded, by a group of disreputable Hungarians and Jews. It appears that his best defense is that he was the tool of these people. At any rate, when Karolyi and some of his ministers appeared before General Franchet d'Esperey at Belgrade to negotiate armistice terms, the Allied Generalissimo looked scornfully at them and said: "Vous etes juifs?" Turning to Karolyi he said: "Vous etes tombes si bas?" Then turning on his heel he left them, declining to negotiate terms of an armistice for Hungary. That...