Word: soldiering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meantime, ugly rumors went about Peking. General Feng Yu-hsiang, "Chinese Christian Soldier," was reported to be planning to attack the Chief Executive, Tuan Chi-jui, on the score that the latter is as corrupt as his predecessors...
...business, but he shared his grandfather's enthusiasm for the great Napoleon whom he was never tired of studying. From the days of his early education at the lycee de Tarbes until his actual entrance into the Ecole Polytechnique at Paris, Ferdinand Foch studied hard to become a soldier...
...claim the credit; how he became generalissimo of the Allied Armies on the Western Front at a time of acute stress; how his expert strategy succeeded in routing the Germans and how Premier Clemenceau recommended President Poincare to make him a Marshal of France, the pinnacle of a French soldier's fame* His last great act took place at 5 A. M. on the morning of Nov. 11, 1918. He received the German delegates in his railway car at Senlis and dictated the terms of the Armistice...
Like his comrade General Castelnau (whom many say is the greater soldier), Marshal Foch is a devout Catholic, but unlike him he does not mix in 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...
...Harry" was ousted, last November (Time, Nov. 17), from the Forbidden City by General Feng, Chinese Christian Soldier. He obtained asylum in the Japanese Legation at Peking and, later, under Japanese escort, went to the Japanese Consulate at Tientsin, apparently the initial trip on the longer voyage to Japan. Japan, however, could do no more for fear of offending the Chinese Government, and informed "Harry," last week, of that fact...