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...Ypres, perished rather than surrender. Their sacrifice on the fields of Flanders was a main contribution to the saving of Ypres (pronounced eepre)-which the British Tommy called "Wipers"-and the Channel ports and helped to hold up the mighty advance of the German military machine. Marshal Ferdinand Foch has written of French: "In him Great Britain found a grand soldier. He kept his troops up to the level of Wellington." John Denton Pinkstone French was born in Kent of Irish parents. He began his career at an early age by joining the Navy, in which his father...
...again came to the front, serving on several advisory committees. In 1918, he became Secretary of State for War, remaining in that post until after the end of the War. It was largely owing to his influence that General Foch was appointed Generalissimo of the Allied Armies in France...
Gaston Doumergue, President of France and Grand Master of the Order of the Legion of Honor, was received by General Dubail, Grand Chancellor; General Nollet, Minister of War; Marshals of France Foch and Joffre, in full-dress uniform, U. S. Ambassador Myron T. Herrick, in full evening dress, when he arrived at the Palace of the Legion of Honor on the Quai d'Orsay...
Like his comrade General Castelnau (whom many say is the greater soldier), Marshal Foch is a devout Catholic, but unlike him he does not mix in politics. M. Castelnau has been an administrator, a tactician. Foch is the theorist, the strategist. Castelnau organized the mobilization system that worked so wonderfully for France at the begin- ning of the War; he saved Nancy, which Foch was apparently unable to do; he saved Verdun, which Petain could not do. Foch became the greater general because, although a Catholic, he kept his political opinions to himself, which Castelnau...
...Inter-Allied Military Commission was appointed in 1919 by the Supreme War Council to see that Germany observed the disarmament provisions of the Treaty of Versailles. -The present French Marshals are: Joffre, Foch, Lyautey, Fayolle, Franchet, d'Esperey, Petain...