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...meeting of the French Cabinet, it was decided that "the dignity of the title of Marshal of France will be allowed to disappear by extinction of those now bearing it." Marshals Foch and Fayolle are dead. Remaining of the Marshals of France are: Joseph (Battle of the Marne) Joffre, Henri (Verdun) Petain, Hubert (North Africa) Lyauty, Louis (Balkans) Franchet d'Esperey. None of these is a young man. It will not be long before the last blue-velvet, gold-starred baton disappears from France's parade grounds. Sentimental, the Paris press mourned last week the passing...
...also marks the founding of the League of Red Cross Societies by the late great Henry Pomeroy Davison. Red Cross work is the outgrowth of Florence Nightingale's nursing British soldiers during England's Crimean War against Russia and of the Swiss philanthropist Henri Dunant's description of suffering in the battle of Solferino (1859). Formal organization of war nursing began at Geneva in 1864. During the World War, such nursing was well organized. Perhaps most efficient was the American Red Cross which Davison headed. In May, 1919, he persuaded England, France, Italy and Japan to join...
...necessary," said black-bearded, unibrachial General Henri Joseph Etienne Gouraud, Military Governor of Paris, "to perpetuate the memory of those battles in which the enemy resorted for the first time to a procedure which the inscription upon this monument describes with justice as abominable...
...Henri Guy, Rector of the University of Grenoble, France, will be the Exchange Professor from France to Harvard during the first half-year 1929-30, it was announced at University Hall yesterday. At the same time three leaves of absence and four appointments were made public by University authorities...
Though the meeting closed on a note of good-fellowship, it was rumored that Sir Henri, watchful of Shell,* U. S., Mexican, Colombian and particularly Venezuelan interests, had at one point seemed quite unable to reconcile himself to the A. P. I. program. After the close of the conference he announced, however, that he would give the movement his "100% co-operation." He added that he was at the meeting in an unofficial capacity as observer and A.P.I. guest...