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SATURDAY,

MARSHAL FOCH,

A TRUE DISCIPLE OF NAPOLEON.

THE TRIUMPH" OF

CHARACTER.

NOVEMBER 30, 1929.

{fast realatafice, were ultimately

destined to bo victorious.

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It has been written that desperate corps-commander, who was at the end of his resource, reported to Fach that orderly re- tirement was no longer possible, and that he received this reply: "You say that you cannot hold on and that you cannot retreat, "Caesar, and not the Roman!

so the only thing left is to attack legions, conquered Gaul," said Na-

to-morrow morning" a "talo poleon, who is also usually quet which reminds us of the proverb ed for the assertion that the moral of the old Zulu nation: "To go factors in war are three times as forward is to die, to go back, is į influential as the material ones to die. Let us go forward and It is impossible to make a close die." Wise saws and proverbs are | study of military history without of little service to a multitudo becoming convinced that the con- in a gravo emergency without the duct of the commander is the all-help of what Foch himself called pervading force which compels a the "conduct of the commander," decision.

and conduct which remains stead.

It is well to be

fast to the very end depends upon reminded of: these truths at a time when there character, not, as so many have is a vast revival of interest in the imagined.: upon some lucky im- realities of the Great War, en-provision of the moment.". pecially on the spiritual side, and the minds of men are turning to the, splendour rather than the squalor of the tremendous strug gle,

1.

Napoleon's Pupit.

A full and detailed account is given of the Marshal's boyhood and early education, and we BOO that from the first he was a pupil of Napoleon in the science and

For the works and days of art of leadership. On one occasion. Marshal Foch wondrously well when his father had planned' an illustrate the age-long, yet often outing for the family and was forgotten certainly that it is the looking for Ferdinand, he found him sitting on the floor surround- "imponderables" that count for ed by various books dealing with most in what must never be the life of Le Petit Caporal. Thought of as an orgy of murder "What are you doing, my son?" a colossal scale. Character he inquired. "I want to find out was indeed destiny for him and holidays, the bay replied, "but what Napoleon did in his school

for the millions he nerved, and in I cannot find out whether he went his death even the representatives fishing. 1 should enjoy it 80 of the armies he defeats admitted much more if he did." His "Aunt his fate-compelling probity, with-often seen Napoleon," was hent Ni" (Madame Nogues), who had out fear and without repronch. on filling the boy's mind with For, in spite of bitter, memories, stories of the Emperor's exploits General von Seeekt wrote: "Death, and of his power of captivating whom he cama into which knows no nationality, all with

contact. Moved by some uncanny, lows, aut old enemy to lower his foresight of his hidden destiny, sword before Marshal Foch, who or, perhaps by the fun of teasing was a great soldier and a great hini, she would always talk as if Frenchman."

he, too, had met and talked with her hero. So, from the first, In "The Biography of the late Napoleon wan to him living Marahal Foch" (Hutchison 24s. personality, and he was as clear- [net.). by Major-General Sirly convinced of the truth of his General Sir Georges Aston, K.C.B.. military principles, as if he had which is just published, the heard them from the immortal spiritual side of military lender- leader's own lips.

This

Napoleon's military adages in his own language. Hence his ad-

¿Continued on Page 11.)

ship is emphasised throughout.] Again and again, when he be-

the authoritative

came a lecturer on the art of memoir, the only one written with warfare (his career thus pro- the consent and approval of viding a close parallel to Stone- Madame Foch and the Marshal's wall Jackson's), he reproduced Executors, and the author has had the willing help of many olti friends and colleagues in the [Service who knew the great lead-Į jer personally. On the title-page, to serve as a sort of text, is Foch's own soldierly saying: "Intellect, criticism-Pah! A donkey who has character is mare useful."

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