Word: gamelin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Anglo-French unity of command was spotlighted brightly enough to be visible as far as Berchtesgaden as little General Maurice Gustave Gamelin, Commander in Chief of all French land, sea and air forces, arrived in London one day last week for talks with Britain's Chief of the Imperial General Staff, John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker, Sixth Viscount Gort. In full regalia the generals met in London's Victoria Station. Together they toured Sandhurst and Aldershot where Lieut. General Sir John Dill showed off his latest tanks. General Gamelin peeped inside...
...French army, 800,000 men (with a trained reserve of 5,500,000) for a total male population of 20,000,000, was the big armed force of Europe from 1919 to 1935. Last September General Marie Gustave Gamelin, France's Chief of Staff, assured his Government that he could roll his men through the unfinished German Siegfried (or Limes) Line like marmalade. Both the German army and the Limes are stronger now, but as of June 1939 the French army is still the strongest all-around fighting machine in Europe...
...Points. The result has been a businesslike class of fine professional officers. With a hierarchy of officers whose continuity of tradition has not been broken since the 1870s, the French are probably weak on new tactics. They are scholars in warfare. It is typical that able Chief of Staff Gamelin, even-tempered Parisian who studied under Foch at the Staff College, is so close a student of Napoleon's campaigns that he is supposed to remember "every order as they were given, day by day, during the Empire" (the words are attributed to Foch). But Gamelin is considerable...
...Polish War Minister Tadeusz Kasprzycki arrived in Paris, first high Polish military man to visit France in three years. Ostensibly bent on "private business," he was nevertheless met at the railway station by French Chief of National Defense General Maurice Gamelin...
Home from Paris went Britain's top soldier, General Viscount Gort, who had "visited" French Chief of Staff General Maurice Gamelin; while in London French Air Minister Guy La Chambre paid his respects to British Air Secretary Sir Kingsley Wood. Early July 1914 saw no events more ominous...