Word: verdun
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Georges Clemenceau, "Tiger" War Premier of France: "He told me he was going to get rid of Joffre, who was too old and too slow and who had taken no precautions to safeguard Verdun...
Tours. Most of the Legion journeyed out and about Paris during the week to see old battlefields. Official tours followed the 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...
...Gimlet Eye" Butler is the "Hell Devil" you claim him to be, he might have made all the Huns in front of Verdun evacuate by simply snarling at them. No disrespect to Gen. Smedley, who is no doubt a very clever man, but I am sure he would laugh if he read your article on China (June...
...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...
...honor to be Premier of France during the anxious days of Verdun, and that terrible massacre filled me with such horror that I swore if I ever again were Premier I would apply my mind and heart and all my forces to avoid the recurrence of such a catastrophe...