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...Eugene Criqui, who fought at Verdun as well as the Polo Grounds...
There is another scene of which I am reminded. One afternoon in September of 1918, I stood on a hill north of Verdun and looked up and down a great valley. As far as the eye could reach, there were row on row of little white crosses. More than six million of the finest men of Europe lie under those crosses in France and Flanders, and on the other fields of battle. Back of those crosses and back of those boys still in the hospital wards, there are others who seem to rise. They are the young women of Europe...
...taxicab army that saved Paris is one of the few legends of the war that time has not demolished. In that long, swaying line that ran from Verdun past Fere-Champenoise and the marshes of Saint Gond almost to the gates of Paris--German cavalry were in the town of Claye for a few hours, but fifteen miles away--it was the army of Gallieni, on the extreme right flank of Von Kluck, that began the counter attack which dislocated the German line and gave Foch his chance to break through. Thus these old cochers of the boulevards who drove...
...able to win them or even make a good showing--and inglorious defeat would be insufferable in Paris. The same feeling is expressed as appeared in the Parisian dailies after the "Battle of the Century" last July: "America may have Dempsey, but remember Frenchmen, we have Verdun!" France and the Olympic question appear very much like a fussy old woman with a potato too hot for her fingers, which pride will not let her lay down. The unfortunate part of it all is that evidences of fussy penny-wise pettiness like this, and isolated cases of what we call "poor...
...gone on with his studies and has won the degrees of licencie-en-lettres and licencie-en-droit. He is at present the holder of the fellowship annually awarded to a young Frenchman in memory of Victor E. Chapman '13, who was killed in action while flying over Verdun...