Word: generaled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...White House made ready for a major international event: President Hoover's promulgation of the General treaty for the renunciation of war. The ratification by Japan, the last of the 15 original signatories to approve the Treaty, was on its way to Washington. To East Room ceremonies were invited twoscore diplomats representing the ratifying powers. The President had a speech ready. A formal luncheon was to be served in the State dining room. Among the prime guests was to be Frank Billings Kellogg, the Coolidge Secretary of State who brought to fruition the idea of France's Aristide...
Reserve officers and National Guardsmen were aquiver with excitement. On the night before the big Red drive, few if any of them got any sleep. Brig.-General Cornelius Vanderbilt, commanding the 154th Brigade of the New York Guard, waited bravely for the attack at the Wrightstown-Lakewood crossroads. When along toward dawn it did not occur, he rolled up in his blanket and took a 60-minute catnap on the roadside...
...existent except for a handful of officers to outline their positions. The Blue "defenders" were composed of 6,000 flesh-and-blood officers and men drawn from the regular Army, the National Guards of New York and New Jersey, the organized Reserve, all under the command of Major General Hanson Edward Ely, commander of the Second Corps Area. Except for the activities of the staff officers of 32 commands, of telegraph, telephone and typewriter operators, of motorcycle messengers, chauffeurs and carrier pigeons, all the fighting was done on large maps with little red and blue flags moved craftily about...
...General Charles Pelot Summerall, Chief of Staff, paid the "war" a fleeting visit, inspected the field of action. Said he: "This war game constitutes the biggest and best tactical campaign ever waged on American soil by the U. S. Army." Just what it all meant strategically he left to the War College to study...
...Bastille Day (July 14), French Ambassador Paul Claudel addressed the convention, said: "I ... feel impelled to raise the same question as did General Gouraud eleven years ago in Metz. And speaking with a loud voice above your heads, I address myself to the soldiers of France, not only to the living, but to the thousands and tens of thousands of dead, and I say: 'Soldiers of France, you have seen the men of the Rainbow Division, you lived with them, you fought with them, you died with them and you won with them. What do you think of them...