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...Line for heavy assault on Germany's western front, an empire ruling France was also exceedingly busy overseas. Out of retirement, to go to Syria and take supreme command of an Allied campaign with Great Britain, Turkey and perhaps Greece, Premier Daladier called France's smart little General Maxime Weygand...
...General Weygand was chosen for the new job not only because he can work 14 hours a day and knows the Far East as few European soldiers do, but because he can get along well with foreigners...
...when he said an unnecessary maneuver, no matter how brilliant, was criminal), in Washington, in Clausewitz, in General Hagood, in Colonel Lawrence, who regretted a victorious battle because he knew the enemy would have surrendered in a few days without one. But the militaristic point of view (exemplars: Foch, Weygand, Leonard Wood) leads to situations like the Dreyfus case; to the preservation of archaic customs like dueling in the German army; to the inflexible employment of traditional tactics when new situations have made them dangerous, such as the use of cavalry early in the World...
Canal directors receive $17,000 a year-almost twice the salary of the U. S. director of the Panama Canal. In France the post of Canal Director is a political reward for faithful service. Most French Presidents become directors. General Max Weygand was chosen to succeed the late Louis Barthou. British directors, all of whom planned to attend this week's meeting, include such bigwigs as the Earl of Cromer, Sir Thomas Royden. Sir Ian Malcolm, Sir J. T. Davies...
Retired from active service since January, little General Maxime Weygand, favorite of Marshal Foch and onetime Inspector General of the French Army, emerged from obscurity last week to take part in the ceremony of relighting the Eternal Flame under the Arc de Triomphe. He was greeted with wild cheers. One passer-by refused to take his hat off. That started a fist fight. Nationalists in the crowd suddenly began to shout: "Put Weygand in Power! Weygand for France!" His admirers nearly tore for the clothes off the little soldier, forced police to hustle him to safety. It was a small...