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...Weygand?" Every morning when the late great Marshal Ferdinand Foch reached his fusty little office he would lean his umbrella in the corner, adjust his spectacles and call out as he sat down to work, "Et Maintenant, Où est mon Weygand...
...Verdun!" Behind Belgium and Luxembourg, whom France trusts, Marshal Foch and General Weygand thought it sufficient to scatter only small forts, backed by what they decided to call '"Flying Fortresses." These, a post-War innovation, consist of trainloads of motorized trench digging and barbed-wire stringing machines of Gargantuan size. In three days each "Flying Fortress" is supposed to turn out a complete system of front line trenches for the sector which it covers and within a week all the "Flying Fortresses" working together can dig France in from the North Sea to the Sarre...
...Verdun," is General Weygand's dry comment when someone suggests that high power artillery can pulverize the strongest fort. A single fort at Verdun, he recalls, withstood 120,000 German projectiles in the grand Boche offensive of 1916 that did not pass. Of this explosive avalanche 2,000 projectiles were of the highest power. To Verdun and other War-famed forts now reconstructed and equipped with guns that can easily fire into German territory, France has added two more monsters, Hackenberg defending the great industrial city of Metz, and Hochwald near the Rhine within easy shooting distance of Baden...
Temporarily sidetracked by the budget discussion last week was General Weygand's request to the War Council to increase the enlistment term for French War Babies, now of military age, from a year to 18 months (TIME, May 29). The army was still much in the government's mind. In his capacity as Minister of War, Premier Daladier lately discovered that not only is there a scarcity of young conscripts to fill the ranks, but that the young men available are showing an alarming tendency to refuse service, as conscientious objectors. From the headquarters...
...onetime (1917-19) First Sea Lord of Britain; of uremia; in Cannes, France. Commander of the Second Battle Squadron in the Mediterranean, he distinguished himself during the War for the successful landing of troops on the Gallipoli Peninsula. Bland of countenance, monocle in eye, he (with Marshal Foch, General Weygand, Rear Admiral George Hope) presented the Armistice ultimatum to the Germans in 1918. After the War he formally received the German fleet at Scapa Flow...