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Plutarchan Anecdotes,

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"Imponderables" that count for so the command of 'n corps in July, much in the final summing up.1918. During the confusion of ideas and (Continued from Page 0.)

idends caused by the Dreyfus Caso and its consequences, when a black

·The book is full of little stories miration for Clausewitz ("There's mark was put against the name of which illustrate Foch's character a man!" he would say of lilm), every officer in the habit of attend-in lightning-flashes, like those told lug-Maes, Foch.. would.. not vell his himself fought against Napoleon and based his treatise religious opinions and was for that by Plutarch of ancient command- on the object-lessons in the moral sole reason deprived of his post at. He had a great love and ad- miration for the British soldier. the Staff College. uspecta of applied strategy given

When, though in very failing by the master to his enomics. In When Clemenceau offered to ap-health, he attended the unveiling Foch's dictum that "There is no point him Director of the Ecole de of the Morne Memorial Inst Novem salvation outside the offensive," Guire, he said: "Thank you, but ber, he inspected the Guard the matter, if not the manner, of you are doubtless unaware that one Honour of a hundred British sol-: | Napoleon's central doctrine is of my brothers is, a Jesuit." "dlers with the greatest interest,

manifest.

know that," said Clemenceau, "but stopplug opposite every man and care a damn! You will asking questions about a good Economy of Time.

make me good officers; that is the many of them. He thought that no only thing that matters." Frenchman, should ever forget what How sedulously he lived up to Valentine, Foch's native town, was he owed to his British comrades-in- the Napoleonic maxima is shown the home of many miraculous tradi- arms. had his limitations; he hy his economy of time in military tions, and in his youth he ex did not understand the part played operations. "Ask me for anything perienced that spell of spiritual by the British Navy, which he once but time," ald Napoleon, and stress which is closed by "conver- said was not worth a bayonet. Foch honoured this saying by sion," as the term is.

When the question was raised as sending orders · of "Instructions

to what was the smallest"number direct to subordinate commanderai The victory of the Allies was to of troops the British Government and not through their superiors him a crowning mercy, the decision could usefully send to France, there whom, however, he always inform of Heaven. Sir George Aston de- was a Bash of Foch's genial wit. ed of the action he had taken. scribes his work in the final test He gesticulated, held up one finger, Though 蝨 rather disconcerting of character with a brilliant brevity and said: "One soldier. I will see habit according to British ideas, which omits nothing of vital con- that he is killed at once, and then ha Sir George Aston observes, it sequence. He was never generalia-the whole British Empire will come certainly saved time, that price-gimo in the full sense of the term to avenge him!" With his special less commodity in warfare.

He was never authorised to give friend "Henri" (Sir Henry Wilson) any orders he liked to the Allles' he would unbend and gossip freely. Again, he always saw the war generala: he could not even order They used to change caps and walk as a whole, and knowing that the them to attack, which comes with- decision must come on the Western in the sphere of tactics. "Ench and down the room talking and

elinffing. front, strongly objected to the Commander-in-Chief,” · according His style of writing was not.pre- "diversion of necessary reserves to to the actual words of the decision minor theatres of war-the folly arrived at by the Beauvais Con- of wasting foreg in "amali ference, was to exercise in full con- packets,"

trol the tactical conduct

of his

cisely classic, but when a critic said some expression' was not perfect French, he replied: "Je m'en f.... Army, and had the right to appeal tions with Weygand, his perfect je suis de l'Academie." His rela- After many hot-bricks (including to his Government, if, in his Chief of Stac, are well described; the period when, despite his ser-opluinn, his Army found Itself he would refer inquirers to him, vices at the Battle of the Marne, placed in danger by any instructions saying "Weygand, c'est moi, He which moved Lord Roberts - to received from Marshal Foch. praise him as a truly great lend-|

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to the intrigues of interfer-

Inspiration.

had no time for time-wasters. When a timid liaison officer came to him and said: "My general ... er ....... But he'could get what he want-er J., er. : ́. I come ing politicians) destiny-that is, ed done by inspiration, by the con-he brisky replied: "Bon, allez!" and his character gave him thence his character inspired, better the poor fellow had to aller back to reward he deserved. For the last than others could by means of de-Verdun phase of the war, beginning with inte orders. His loyal support of the great German offensive which

These and many other stories created a huge central salient to be Haig, when Lloyd George was fres illustrating the Marshal's sincerity: attached on both flanks, enabled against the British Com- and simplicity, his kindliness and him to fight and win what was ina-Chief, was an important moral sense of humour, endear him to the strategic form a Napoleonic battle vented the semration of the French which is a masterpiece of its kind, factor in the operations which pre-reader. Sir George Aston's book, scale more colosanl Than Napoleon could ever have dreamed and British Armies and the taking is an impressive portrait of a truly of the Channel ports, and in the great personality, who was equal end brought about the collapse of to the most soul-searching of op- the German campaign.

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