Word: gouraud
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Plans. While the legion's van guard went out to show its wives its old battlefields, its comrades' graves, planning went ahead for the parade, on Sept. 19, of 15,000 legionaries and 15,000 Frenchmen behind one-armed General Gouraud, onetime commandant of the A. E. F. now military governor of Paris...
...Nazaire strained their eyes toward the sea to catch the first glimpse of the liner that was bringing the vanguard of American troops to France. Last week, with French and American warships roaring salutes, with Breton peasants waving American flags, with General Pershing, Admiral Gleaves, Ambassador Herrick, and General Gouraud looking on, the canvas was lifted from Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney's* inspired masterpiece. The statue stands 300 ft. out in the harbor on a 70-ft. masonry pillar. The eagle has a tensile wingspread of 35 ft. The Bretons gazed in wonder at the power and grace...
Marshal Foch attended the ceremony of placing the bugle in its case. With him came General Gouraud, now Military Governor of Paris. To them came bugler Corporal Sellier. Upon his chest the one-armed General Gouraud pinned the Croix de Guerre...
...French civilian regime in Syria. The meeting was not cordial. Snapped M. Sarrail, "You should not have troubled to come to meet me." Replied M. de Jouvenel, "As you like, but I have thought it my duty to seek information everywhere, and have sought the advice of Generals Gouraud and Weygand, your predecessors." Barked the ungracious General, "That should be enough!" Later he consented to discuss Syrian affairs in secret with M. de Jouvenel; and held a long conference with Premier Painlevé. To the correspondents he said nothing...
Around a lavishly decorated board, were seated U. S. Ambassador Myron T. Herrick, Emile Daeschner (recently appointed Ambassador-designate to the U. S.), le maréchal Foch, Jules Cambon (onetime Ambassador to Germany), General Gouraud (Military Governor of Paris), Sheldon Whitehouse (U. S. Counselor of Embassy) and Mrs. Whitehouse, U. S. Consul General and Mrs. Robert Skinner, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Goelet of Manhattan, and many another...