Word: mangin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...matter of theirs." I agree with you that it is no matter of theirs. Unfortunately, the powers that be in your country think otherwise. Ray Stannard Baker in his "Woodrew Wilson and World Settlement", II, 87 substantiating a report of General Pershing, relates that on May 22, 1919, General Mangin, commanding general of the French army at Mainz, sent a colonel of his staff to General Liggett's headquarters at Coblenz to inquire what the American attitude would be toward a political revolution on the west bank of the Rhine for the establishment of an independent Rhineland republic free from...
...military intelligence service in the A. E. F., he did signal service in organizing and conducting this department. It was due chiefly to his efforts and those of Colonel Arthur L. Conger '94 that the Military Intelligence Department attained such a high grade of efficiency during the war. General Mangin, of the French Army, in speaking of General Nolen's work, said: "The Intelligence Department of the A. E. F. was the first branch of the American staff to learn to function properly under modern conditions...
...Staff G-2 to General Pershing. It was due chiefly to his efforts and those of Colonel Arthur L. Conger '94, of the General Staff, that the American Intelligence Service attained such a high order of excellence during the war. General Nolen managed this department so efficiently that General Mangin of the French army remarked that "The Intelligence Department of the A. E. F. was the first branch of the American Staff to learn to function properly, under modern conditions...