Word: marshals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...known in France how to honor even the greatest of heroes, not by many words, but with a few deeds less cheap. During the two days and nights that Marshal Ferdinand Foch lay in state, last week−beneath the Emperor Napoleon's tremendous Arch of Triumph−the government suppressed and darkened every electric sign which might have profaned the scene. As thousands and tens of thousands filed past the bier, all night long the only light was that from funeral torches and the blue "Sacred Flame" which burns eternally beneath the Arch for the Unknown Soldier...
...speeches of French statesmen were almost incredibly Spartan and brief−perhaps the most significant was uttered by a certain Mile. Breton, telephone operator to Foch from 1924 until last week. As she came to sit at her little switchboard, in the gate keeper's lodge of the Marshal's residence, Mile. Breton said...
...make propositions!" snapped the Marshal, and only after the Germans had been made to eat a great deal more crow did the negotiants finally come to terms...
Came the signing of the Treaty of Versailles. Foch seemed to divine, by intuition, that President Woodrow Wilson's pledge that the U.S. would guarantee French security was wasted breath. After the U.S. Senate refused to ratify the Treaty, Marshal Foch declared with concentrated scorn in an authorized interview...
...Lion and the Tiger formally embraced each other, but it is said that they have never met or spoken since. Last week a personal autograph letter was sent by M. Poincaré to M. Clemenceau, inviting him in the name of the French Government to attend the funeral of Marshal Foch; but Le Tiger replied to Le Lion that he had already taken leave of Le Patron. French poilus called Foch Le Patron ("the boss") out of homage and respect, reserving the merely affectionate nickname of Le Papa for bumbling old Marshal Joseph Jacques Cesaire Joffre...