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...Verdun, 3,000 Radicals assembled in the marketplace, where, a week before, the Catholics had staged a giant demonstration, passed a vote of congratulations to Premier Herriot for his "defense of democratic doctrine against the great offensive of the clerical reactionary forces...
...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...
...Nancy". Not only that, but by his brilliant offensive against Crown Prince Rupprecht's Army (the same Prince who is now virtually King of Bavaria) he undoubtedly (in the opinion of 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...
...Marne worth nothing? Could Verdun not be estimated in cash value...
...Allies), one-time Commander-in-Chief of the French armies; in Paris, of double pneumonia. His mother was English, his father a French army captain. He went through the Fontainbleau Artillery School, the Superior War College, served in Africa, China, Algeria. In 1916 he succeeded General Petain at Verdun and arrested the great German push at Douamont and Vaux. After the retirement of Joffre, he led the costly offensive of April, 1917. A year later he was sent to command the troops in Algeria. In 1920 he visited...