Word: marshals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will be open to the public, are: R. W. Boyden '85, a former unofficial representative of the United States on the Reparations committee; R. T. Bushnell '18, former District Attorney of Middlesex County; and I. L. Winters '86, Associate Professor of Public Speaking, Emeritus. B. H. Ticknor '31, First Marshal of the Senior Class will preside...
...Memoirs of Marshal Foch. Translated by Col. T. Bentley Mott; Doubleday Doran...
...Marshal Foch re-entered Alsace in November, 1918. He wrote in his memoirs: "On November 17 the Allied armies crossed the lines they held at the moment hostilities ceased. . . . On the 25th I entered Metz and on the 26th Strasbourg." He did not think it important to add one other fact. When he rode in triumph into Metz and Strasbourg, Marshal Foch car- ried in his hand the ancient curved sabre of General Kl?...
...problems of "War Guilt" that beset other historians did not exist for Marshal Foch. So far as he was concerned Prussia started the War in a spirit of commercial greed. The entire subject is dismissed in three pages. At the same time he blandly admits that from 1885 to 1915 he was preparing for the coming struggle, visiting France's allies, preparing plans of attack and defense. His leave in Brittany was suddenly cut short one week before Germany delivered her ultimatum to Belgium. In the same way the political problems of the War itself did not concern him. Politicians...
Stories of the brutality with which he has been accused of receiving German delegates to the Armistice, Marshal Foch did not trouble to deny or defend. Metic- ulously he described the details of that fateful meeting on a railway siding in the forest of Compiegne?in the third person. The last ten years of the Marshal's life, he dismissed in one sentence, the last in the book...