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...citizens have forgotten what he did between 1914 and 1918 when he became Commander-in-Chief. At the beginning of the War he had command of the 20th Army Corps between Toul and Nancy. His adjutant was a little slant-eyed terrier of a man, Lieut.-Col. Max Weygand. Faithful Wey- gand never left him, carries on today as Vice-President of the Higher War Council, highest peacetime post...
...work Marshal Pétain, 74, gracefully out of his post last week and make room for General Weygand, 64, the War Ministry declared that "Marshal Pétain has sought retirement for several years," but that even now he cannot be spared. He was asked last week "to contribute his great experience and high authority to a new task as difficult as it is delicate." The task: to arrange coordination between the Ministries of Air, War and Navy in such a way as to provide in war time a complete and rational air barrier around the whole of France...
Oddly enough, General Weygand, who will not tackle this job but will leave it to Marshal Pétain, is one of the best co-ordinators French militarism has ever produced. His star turn during the War was to mingle with and co-ordinate the "allied" military leaders who so easily quarreled with the French command to which they were subordinate under Generalissimo
From that hour General Weygand has displayed the fierce hatred of the Reds which sits so becomingly upon a church man, and which accounts in part for his unpopularity with the Pinks of Paris. He said on his return from the Bolshevik-Polish front: "Bolshevism is an atrocious system. Its tyranny is ten times worse than that of the Tsar. I hear now that certain persons are wishing to conclude [French recognition of Russia] . . . It is a shameful thing to make a compact with crime...
Last week, General Weygand presented himself as a candidate to fill the seat among the 40 "immortals" of L'AcadémÍe Française vacated by the late Marshal Joffre...