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...first year was the hardest. Patient Brown tried to annoy the doctors as much as their elaborate, cheerful treatment annoyed him. But he enjoyed his ''diverting and interesting" companions. "General Foch" amused him especially. It was fun, at a safe distance, teasing the surly ones with such remarks as: "You big lazy bum, why don't you go home and go to work?" In time he noticed nothing particularly "goofy" about any of them. It was the intrusion of sane outsiders on Visitors' Day that brought back a depressing sense of something wrong...
...Basque!" cried he, shaking his white mane. "Marshal Foch was a Basque! The Welsh and the Basques are the same race...
...best biographical motion pictures of 1935, in which Paul Muni plays the leading figure of a great Frenchman, is Warner Brothers' (1 The Story of Louis Pasteur, 2 Briand, the Peacemaker, 3 The Tiger of France, 4 Radium's Discovery, 5 The Magnificent Marshal Foch...
...wreck of the Habsburg Empire was in no small part the work of Dr. Masaryk, in Vienna last week the Neues Wiener Tagblatt exulted with Restorationists: "The foes of the Habsburgs pass! Lloyd George, for adequate reasons, was sentenced to political obscurity long ago. Wilson, Poincare, Clemenceau and Foch are dead. Masaryk has resigned...
General Badoglio is said to have telegraphed allied Generalissimo Ferdinand Foch, in November 1918, in a code to which he knew the Germans had the key, a bluff proposal for a terrifying offensive on five fronts. Three hours after Foch telegraphed his approval in the same code, the Germans sued for Armistice...