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...Little River. Mistakes piled up on both sides, The French gallantly launched Plan 17 and were slaughtered; élan was no match for heavy artillery. When Moltke hesitated despite this victory, a general named Alexander von Kluck took matters into his own hands on the right wing, although his troops were exhausted. "They look like living scarecrows," noted one of Kluck's officers in his diary. "They drink to excess, but this drunkenness keeps them going. If we used too much severity the army would not march." Kluck decided to disregard Moltke's order to hold back...
...crossed, Kluck exposed his flank to the astonished eyes of the French generals. General Joseph ("Papa") Joffre, the French commander, had been regrouping his armies for a stand on the Seine. Now he had to decide whether or not to risk everything with an attack on Kluck. Throughout a long afternoon, Joffre sat in the shade of an ash tree, a ponderous figure in black tunic, baggy red pants, and army-issue boots, and faced the problem. "Gentlemen," he said finally, "we will fight on the Marne...
...first great field battle of World War I took place at Mons in Belgium, where a victorious German army, driving hard after the outgeneraled and defeated Allies, came up with Britain's "contemptible little" professional army (80,000 men). General von Kluck threw 250,000 men against-them. But the Old Contemptibles stood their ground until their ranks were shot through & through...
Sirs: I believe your criticism of Frank Kluck-hohn's close-up of Major Richard Ira Bong (TiME, May 1) was unjustified. If the facts given were correct, and you did not seem to question them, I see no reason why a reporter should refer to Bong in "warm, sympathetic" tones...
French resistance along the northwestern frontier was weak, though brave, because the French had not anticipated so wide a movement against them. While Kluck and Bülow drove through British resistance at Mons, the main French offensive, in the Ardennes, failed. The Third and Fourth German Armies crushed through on schedule, and the retreat to the Marne, though orderly, was saved from being a rout with Paris captured only because General Helmuth von Moltke, the German Commander in Chief: 1) weakened Kluck's Army by taking from it troops to police Belgium, 2) abandoned the classic outline...