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Marshal Pétain is the third senior Marshal of France and as such outranks Marshal Lyautey, the French Resident General in Morocco, who will continue to be the supreme French civil authority in the Protectorate. "My duty," said Marshal Petain, "is to coordinate the reinforcements which are being sent to Morocco continuously. Those going from France will land at the Casablanca and those from Algeria will proceed directly to Taza. The question is to "use them actively in the area...
...Versailles Treaty and as such he is Chairman of the Inter-Allied Military Commission. Although he is in active service (as are all Marshals of France) at the age of 73, he is not Commander-in-Chief of the French Army; that honor belonging to Marshal Petain...
...politics. M. Castelnau has been an administrator, a tactician. Foch is the theorist, the strategist. Castelnau organized the mobilization system that worked so wonderfully for France at the begin- ning of the War; he saved Nancy, which Foch was apparently unable to do; he saved Verdun, which Petain could not do. Foch became the greater general because, although a Catholic, he kept his political opinions to himself, which Castelnau...
...Inter-Allied Military Commission was appointed in 1919 by the Supreme War Council to see that Germany observed the disarmament provisions of the Treaty of Versailles. -The present French Marshals are: Joffre, Foch, Lyautey, Fayolle, Franchet, d'Esperey, Petain...
...eminent military critics) made possible the famed Marne victory. Later General de Castelnau reorganized the defense of Verdun at a time when the Germans had almost smashed it. In the space of a few days, he inspired the dispirited troops and handed over the defense to the then General Petain in a state which defied the Germans for two years...