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Years afterwards during the War, a trembling orderly faced the Tiger, who had dashed out from Paris to confer with Generalissimo Foch. "He is at Mass, M. le President," stammered the orderly. "Shall I tell him you are here...
Draped completely in long streamers of black were the high walls and soaring towers of the Cathėdrale de Notre Dame. Thus, with a deed, the Catholic Church received the most illustrious and possibly the most devout of her warrior sons, the sole generalissimo who ever commanded ten million men in arms, the great and humble Catholic who reviewed his victory thus: "Without claiming the intervention of a miracle, I say that when, at a moment in history, a clear view is given to a man and he finds later that that clear view has determined movements of enormous...
...Hindenburg explained to correspondents why Der Alte Feldmarschall sent only the frostiest expression of official regret through German Ambassador at Paris, Dr. Leopold von Hoesch. Meanwhile German news organs indignantly recalled how Victor Foch had "rubbed it in." Facts are that when Herr Matthias Erzberger entered the Allied Generalissimo's staff car at the head of the German Armistice Commission to sue for peace, he was pointedly ignored by Foch who remarked to his staff: "Who are these gentlemen? What do they want...
Paradoxically Tiger and Generalissimo became estranged in the very dawn of victory. Foch, knowing that the Germans were about to sue for an armistice, asked Clemenceau what were the political terms on which the Allied statesmen desired to conclude peace. In effect the Tiger replied that Foch should mind his own business, conclude a purely military Armistice, and keep his nose out of the Peace Conference. Stung to the quick of pride, the Generalissimo obeyed these instructions literally, and, having concluded the Armistice, washed his hands of the Peace with these icy words to Clemenceau, "M. Le President, my work...
...most astounding application of these principles was the complete reversal of the Allied plan of campaign in 1918, when Ferdinand Foch was given supreme command as Generalissimo. So irresistible seemed the German advance in those black days that the Allies were preparing to abandon Paris...