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...president and fellows of Harvard, to carry out the wish of General Ward's great-grandson, deemed it appropriate that the statue should be erected in the national capital because General Ward was the first to command the Revolutionary Army. The statue will be placed in a new circle at the intersection of Massachusetts and Nebraska avenues. Its design has been approved by the Fine Arts Commission and erection of the memorial will begin soon...
Although General Ward was the first to command the Revolutionary forces, he later became second in command to George Washington. He also served in the Continental Congress and in two of the earlier Federal Congresses. Memorials in his honor have already been erected in Cambridge and in Shrewsbury, where the general lived and died...
Cinemactor Charles Spencer Chaplin refused to participate in a command benefit vaudeville performance before H. M. King George V, sent the vaudeville manager a check for $1,000 instead. Shocked at this apparent affront to Royalty, the London Daily Express sent a reporter down to interview Mr. Chaplin at Juan-Les-Pins, France. The interview: "What's all this nonsense? . . . I received no command from the King, but merely a request from the music hall manager, named Black, to appear in a charity show. . . . Europe has bullied, misunderstood and misinterpreted me. I don't care a hang whether...
Still fighting under French command, the next big A. E. F. engagement, this time offensive, occurred July 18. The 1st and 2nd Divisions became spearheads for an attack launched eastward into the west flank of the new Marne salient near its base below Soissons. Simultaneously other U. S. forces attacked from below. The strategy was to squeeze the Germans out and eliminate the bulge. The attack was successful. On July 20 began the German retreat. Wrote General Pershing: "The magnificent conduct of our ist and 2nd Divisions . . . marked the turning of the tide...
These successes led directly to the creation of the First U. S. Army which General Pershing commanded (Aug. 10). Immediate preparations were started for its active use. East of Verdun on the southern sector was a deep inactive salient known as St. Mihiel which the Germans had held since 1914. General Pershing got permission from Generalissimo Foch to use his new army against this bulge. Early on the misty morning of Sept. 12 began the St. Mihiel battle, with the ist Army fighting under U. S. command for the first time. Though the salient was virtually a field fortress...