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...Broglie and friend of the Duchess of Windsor, announced herself the marraine or "godmother" not of one French soldier - the usual thing - but of an entire battalion of Chasseurs Alpins (Blue Devils), traditionally agile and gallant French fighters: She sends them English blankets and every other sort of costly trench luxury, keeps her daughters madly knitting. Recently when "Daisy" visited her delighted chasseurs they did everything they could think of to show their gratitude, including a dash up among snow-crested crags to shoot chamois for her lunch. "The war has affected me in every way," gushed...
Underneath was a drawing of a skull wearing a French trench helmet...
...camera narrows to young Jerphanion, who first appeared in the first vol ume as a sensitive, acute, idealistic student arriving in Paris to attend the Normal School. Jerphanion, as a second lieu tenant, returns from leave in Paris. He renews his acquaintance with the trans forming fact of trench fear. He and his sardonic pal Fabre get relief in a joke, adapted from an article by Foch. Jerphanion asks Fabre what he thinks will happen that winter. Fabre clenches his fist. "This," he says, "that when the time comes, we shall charge the foe and let cold steel decide." Then...
Romains next provides a piece of war realism that belongs with the most gagging examples: a description of a trench on an other sector of the front, cut through a graveyard on a hill smashed and harrowed into a corpsy pudding by gunfire. The next chapter is a letter from Jerphanion to his wife in which he tells her of the rumor that G. H. Q. is about to form "shock troop" battalions, of his canny hope of getting a job in the rear as an instructor. The camera now turns to General Duroure, who is about to take...
...Read Machinery Co., Inc., producer of dough mixers for bakeries, had an order for 60-mm. trench howitzers...