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...southern Democrat, found himself in an awkward position just before Christmas that year. He was far from home and had been so busy with his Field Artillery, which he organized and shepherded through the St. Mihiel offensive, the Meuse and the Argonne, that social duties slipped his mind. Probably there was no book of etiquette at hand in his spare military headquarters. Possibly it would not have helped him anyway. A delicate question faced him. A great Democrat, he had no Christmas present for the greatest Democrat, President Woodrow Wilson. The shops around Luxembourg were bare. He particularly needed...
...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 to be chiseled: "He has outsoared the shadows of our night?Quentin Roosevelt...
...acres of land in France that are a disgrace to the State of Massachusetts. . . . Nine acres of that land was bought by the people of Massachusetts in 1920, for $20,000, to become a War Memorial; and the tenth acre was given by the adjacent community of St. Mihiel. . . . The Sacred Rocks of St. Mihiel overlook that land. Moreover it is on the main highway between St. Mihiel and Verdun. . . ." Thus cried Representative Slater Washburn of Worcester in the State Legislature of Massachusetts last week, and went on to explain himself as follows...
...Mayor of St. Mihiel, the Municipal Council and the Cure have all complained! When they look to find what the Massachusetts memorial is they see a wide-open speakeasy run by squatters. It is a dump with old shacks and tumble down buildings on it. The French authorities cannot interfere, as it is Massachusetts territory...
...fact was noted when his guns blasted the Philippine insurrectos out of the village of Calamba in 1898, when he smote down four gates of Peking at the time of the Boxer massacres. Later he entered the World War a Colonel, came out a Major General. At Soissons. St. Mihiel, and in the Meuse-Argonne he commanded brilliantly the First Division, never admitting that it could be "held up by machine gun fire" or "shot to pieces," so long as he had his artillery sputtering. Said he: "Fire is the secret of fighting. If you have enough you can take...