Word: marshalling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...First to dine the 2,000 legionaries were 2,000 French veterans. Tables totaling a mile in length were placed in the open court in the Hotel des Invalides. It rained and blew but the diners wore overcoats. Detachments led by cheerleaders would rush to the head table, cheer Marshal Foch, General Pershing, one-armed General Henri Gouraud, Commander Savage...
Tours. Most of the Legion journeyed out and about Paris during the week to see old battlefields. Official tours followed the official farewell to Paris. Premier Poincare and Marshal ("They shall not pass") Petain received at Verdun. Lunch was served to hundreds in the market square, once razed but now reconstructed. The Douaumont Ossuary, a monument to 400,000 unidentified Frenchmen who fell defending the citadel, was dedicated. St. Mihiel, the Argonne, Belleau Wood drew steady streams of visitors. At least one news correspondent went to the bramble-hidden grave upon which a onetime U. S. President caused...
...little town of Swinemunde, in northern Germany, dressed itself in gala attire: Field Marshal Paul Ludwig Hans von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg, President of the German Republic, was due to arrive on his first visit since 1877. In due course the aged President appeared, received a hearty welcome. He had come, with Dr. Otto Gessler, Minister of Defense; Admiral Zenker; Rear Admiral Mommsen, to attend the annual maneuvers of the German Navy, held this year in the Bay of Swinemunde...
...Marshal Joffre said of Kitchener that he understood the French because of his love for them. I too love France, love all her splendors, her attractions, her gayeties. And I love her even more in her hours of anguish and sorrow, when I must render her homage for her fortitude and for her resolution. But also I love her possibly as much for her faults as for her virtues...
...Field Marshal August von Mack-ensen, 78, reviewed at Potsdam, Germany, veterans of German wars with Denmark, Austria and France (men 77 to 93 years old), dined with them, read to them a telegram from their onetime Emperor Wilhelm II: "The glorious fruits of these wars are now unhappily destroyed by discord, and must be fought for again. Gott mit uns, WILHELM...