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...Foch, Petain, Lyautey, Franchet d'Esperey...
...that place of transcendent glory, there seemed to stand, last week, merely four old men: Foch, 76; Lyautey, 73; Petain, 72; Franchet d'Esperey...
Ferdinand Foch was early nicknamed the "man of geometrical mind," later the "man of will," lastly the "Man of Victory." As the first he was Chief of the Ecole de Guerre; as the second a General of brilliant, pitiless strategy; and at last he became the Generalissimo of half the World. Of all the Marshals of France Foch is the most keenly intellectual...
...symbol of France is a spunky, militant, land-lubbing Cock; but for one day last week Frenchmen raised the three-spiked Trident of sea power. For once the name of "Admiral of the Fleet"*Henri Salaun loomed on a momentary par with that of Marshal Ferdinand Foch. The occasion was twofold: first a review of the Grand Fleet, off Havre, and second the inauguration, at Havre, of the new docks and deep water basin-a prodigious puddle capable of accommodating simultaneously the two largest ships in the world, the Majestic and Leviathan...