Word: marshalling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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France. The German offer was received in Paris with expected skepticism. "Of what use," said Frenchmen, "will another scrap of paper be?" At the same time, Le Marechal Foch presented his report to the Council of Ambassadors (see Page 9). The Marshal tacitly admitted that, if Germany wished to arm, the Inter-Allied Military Commission could not stop her; hence it appeared to him that a defensive alliance with England-long a topic in London and Paris-seemed the logical way to provide for lasting security. This was an admission that the control machinery, set up after the Versailles Treaty...
...military clauses of the Treaty, according to Marshal Foch, have now been largely defeated and the impossibility of preventing Germany from arming is now clear...
...vous dis. ..." The honking of an automobile horn interrupted the incipient altercation. Out of the car stepped a man dressed in the sky-blue uniform of a French officer; on his head was a cap with a dome en- circled by hoops of gold. Evidently he was a Marshal of France. The crowd, surer of its ground, instantly recognized the Marshal and the air became thick with Vive le marechal! Five le generalissime...
Inside the Quai d'Orsay, in a gilded council chamber, a group of men awaited the coming of Marshal Foch and Premier Edouard Herriot. They were the Ambassadors and Ministers of the late Allied Powers and had come for a meeting of the Council of Ambassadors*, which was to consider a report from the Inter-Allied Military Commission † of which Marshal Foch is Chairman...
Presently a number of chairs skidded slightly along the soft carpet as the sitters stood up to welcome the Premier and the Marshal. Premier Herriot, marching to the head of a long council table, requested the company to be seated. Marshal Foch placed a large portfolio of documents on the table and sat down...