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Title: The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting), 1851-1919, comp
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: New York, London, Funk & Wagnalls Company
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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exception had attended hislectures. He took to the Napoleonic habit of first-hand contactwith men in the ranks—not that of joWal comradeship, but aquiet, comprehending contact, in which even boots were inspectedand food tested. Clemenceau in a speech had once referred to a certain day asan unforgettable day. It was a day in the war when Foch wasvirtually on the retired list. Foch was actually for a time without a 114 PERSONAL SKETCHES OP WAR LEADERS command, but it appeared that he was engaged on importantduties, but during M. Painleves tenure of the War Office onMay 15, 1917, Foch returned to service as Chief of the GeneralStaff. The public had heard little of Foch in the year whichpreceded his appointment. The fact was he had met with amotor-car accident in June, 1916, or a short time before theopening of the battle of the Somme, for which he had been pre-paring from his headquarters near Amiens. He was, however,kept on the active list, altho about to reach the age limit of sixty-
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© UNDERWOOD a UNDERWOOD. N. Y. MARSHAL FOCH AND GENERAL MANGIN (AT THE LEFT) Inspecting fortifications on the Rhine during the Allied occupation five, but by special decree, owing to his services in Lorraine inAugust, 1914, in the Battle of the Marne in September, and incommand of the armies of the north from Compiegne to the seaafter October 4, 1914. Foch in 1916 was dealing with variousproblems relating to inter-Allied action, but carried out the workin comparative obscurity, first at Senlis, then in eastern Francewhere he had important duties, which were the organization ofdefenses in the Jura in anticipation of a turning movement bythe Germans through Switzerland and the framing of plans forItaly in case of an emergency arising from an Austrian offensive. 115 SKETCHES, PEACE TREATY, CHRONOLOGY The Iormula of aii Allied commander-in-chief had been mootedfor a long time when Lloyd Georg-e, speaking in Paris in Novem-ber, 1917, on his return from Italy, where Foch was helping tohold

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