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...Foch greater than Clémenceau? The commission on finance of the Chamber of Deputies lately favorably reported two money bills which seem to answer. The first appropriates 2,500,000 francs for a tomb to Marshal Foch. The second, while recalling that "Clémenceau was the Organizer of Victory and the Savior of France," appropriates for a statue to him 100,000 francs?exactly 1/25 of the sum to be spent on Foch...
Grandeur. In his own book the Tiger appears to mean by grandeur that which he bestowed on Marshal Foch, and for which the Marshal, in Clémenceau's opinion, displayed base, hypocritical and pusillanimous ingratitude...
...have to your credit the Marne, the Yser, Doullens and, of a surety, other battles beside," writes Clémenceau among his last words to the already dead Foch. "I forgave you a flagrant disobedience, which, under anyone but me, would have brought your military career to an end. I saved you from Parliament in the bad business of the Chemin des Dames, which has not yet been cleared...
...when you had reached the highest honors, after a ten-years' silence, to wait till you had disappared from the scene [into the tomb] and then have me pelted out of your window with roadside pebbles [the book Le Memorial de Foch, published by Journalist Raymond Recouly and quoting his words in a long attack on Clémenceau for having "lost the peace"] ?I tell you frankly [this] does not redound to your glory...
...Marshal Foch's brother, Father Germain Foch, is a Jesuit priest, the Marshal himself was Jesuit trained...