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...Richmond, Va., General W. McK. Evans received a letter from Marshal Henri Petain declining an honorary brigadier generalship, asking to be enrolled as a private in the ranks of the Army of Northern Virginia, United Confederate Veterans...
Marshal Louis Franchet d'Esperey, 75, once the youngest General in the French army and but one day older than its youngest marshal (Petain), stopped briefly at Trinidad last week on the maiden Caribbean cruise of the French liner Colombie, was welcomed by British officials and most of the populace. Trinidad understood what brought him. A courier had just arrived from Cayenne, French Guiana, with word of a drastic administrative reform inaugurated by Governor Bouge. Most of French Guiana is unexplored. Preliminary surveys show traces of gold, silver, lead, copper. There are phosphate deposits and valuable rosewood forests...
Marshall Philippe Petain, defender of Verdun in 1916, who came to the United States this fall, paid a secret visit to Harvard at a time when it was generally believed that he was on the high seas returning to France...
...being questioned, University officials declared that on the same day when newspapers stated that the French commander had left Newport on a battleship for France, Marshall Petain walked into University Hall with his host, whose identity has not yet been revealed...
When asked if he knew about the visit, Professor Andre Morize, former lieutenant in the French Army declared. "I am sorry to say that Marshall Petain came to Harvard absolutely incognito. I know nothing, literally nothing about his visit here. Ask me another...