Show L a D 7 T i 5 N 7 5 5 A PW NEEn dane SUar tells tel 19 of nf gre P ra t it in rd I 1 T HAT does docs at a brignale comi minder think 11 bout particularly if that brigade co fr iander finds himself responsible for the success of it maneuver lit in one of tire the campaigns in it tile lie world avar let maj uen jen lames james 0 who commanded the marine brigade around belleau ISel leau wood tell ou u lie he knows y you 0 can rood read ills his reactions react loni iong now for th the e first time in that living record written in tile the treat of war dabs w tit no thought of publication hut ifor for tile the eyes of one woman the wife of ono one soldier and the daughter of ut iother tilts this Is the explanation with which the general dedicates to tits wife the newly published leaves from froin a war diary dodd mend arid company which it in the alnis before he could write Ile Ite tired list after tits ills name fur for honie hollie only you decide to try to straighten out a small email reentrant entrant re in your lines starts the generals an owr to lo tle above question or perhaps the coclie boche decides to do something to you and for about one minute of 0 thought followed by a decision delivered perhaps in less leas than ten seconds second you sit through hours of waiting you wait for or the necessary aary preliminary reconnaissance tor for some gome artillery preparation perhaps for or the approval of 0 some superior whose mind does not seem to function quickly for the reconnaissance you must await tire tho report before you can make up your mind what it Is in you wish your action to be the artillery artilleryman nian must got get some data to tell you whether he can do what you ask the ne necessary matters of ammunition for rifle b dehat stokes stoke s V B 3 37 7 nim mm or machine gun all of which now form part of your armament must be considered si also the weather the interval to nightfall as com compared with ih the 0 time it will ivill take to nake make your operation what the enemy la Is liable to io do what your own people on either side of you can do or will do etc etc etc finally all the these ac preliminaries are gone through and your orders are mail made and your attack la ii launched in the hols de belleau Cel leau or wherever it Is going to be then comes the hard waiting you know your have started forward and the outcome Is on the knees of the gods you can do nothing more but you wish you could a and d it Is sometimes sometime s hours before you know whit Is happening the Iel telephone ephone wires are cut runners runner are killed your men are out of sight and hear hearing 1 ng eventually perhaps an airplane drops a message at your headquarters as it flies over an orderly hastens to pick up the little tin cylinder lit in which the drop their messages and lou get the information that americans are in night on the billeau belleau road or americans can s ar are 1 in possession ton of torcy dorcy wounded men beg begin ri te to arrive at the dressing stations in the little redcross red ned cr cross os 9 ford a ambulances bullice bul mice and sometimes you get bour our 11 t news nas n As front from them eventually a signal goes up objective attal attained neol or it may be falling back or we want wan I 1 to advance lengthen en tile the fire athis tills for the he artillery or our artillery I 1 ry Is firing on in us hy by arid and by when mien yoa are frantic f r antic for news tie a message arrives by runner but is almost illegible quite generally ery cry iague ague being written on some officers knee with a soft pencil arid anil carried through brush and shellfire and probably written under fire you wish more than anything else in the world to know tire the ex egut it p 91 ilor of your tr troops and exactly where tile the Is with reference ference ri to them where villere iu ou can ask the artillery to place their further furl lier fire or nut not the casualties have be been n heay beay among our people and among the ge gergins Ger I 1 mins t is and the lie number of hars thas information f sometimes takes a day and night to filter in and it is IB difficult to be pati rt the telephone gets cut at critical times and you cannot use it except in tode for the modern listening sets enable the enemy to hear and the operators have continually to br cautioned to be careful about revealing confidential matter over the tha telephone officers under lire fire are oblivious to the passage of time tim and forget the importance of reports you cant help them unless you know where they are how bow they are slid and when reports come in without the hour on them and are worthless for you do not know when the condit conditions lofts reported existed certainly 11 Is no exaggeration to say that the liaison Is of the very highest importance liaison generally speaking peaking consists in keeping everybody informed of everything he ought to know meanwhile ou wall find and walk the floor or smoke some ome g play solitaire or you worry over whether you halel hae left anything an thing undone or not says the general find adds A favorite or rather an inevitable topic when one to Is waiting Is our on r relations with our allies particularly ticul arly the french they are the most delight delightful fut exasperating nr liable trustworthy unsanitary cleanly dirty artistic clever and stupid people that the writer has ever known intensely academic iLea demic and theoretical yet splendidly practical at t times it ft will be a wonder if we wa do not fiot feel suchlike much like fighting them as we do the germans 4 zar before the war ivar Is over for our alliance tries hu man patience american patience almost to the limit one tit if their heir orators said in my presence some ome time ago that all tie the world weeps for foi the eanie ame reasons 1 ut only those th se who see act alike laugh a at t the same t things angs and lie re rc ah boned in d that the french and are alike because they laugh at the same game laings we do but wo we are surely very diffee different nt reproduction of maps from airplane photographs Is 19 it in the th french system assigned to the topo graphic section of the lie army with us our organ h has a 3 only gone gon e as far as the corps as yet our division lon general start staff section 2 intelligence has been furnishing us some maps from airplane photographs french staff officers spend a golden hour telling yu you that it Is nt n t the business of the bureau to make such buch maps but of the section darbee d anniee the war may be lost the maps would never be made men die tor for want of the information the maps would have given but what matters it if the battle be lost or won if the bureau la is not prostituted prostitutes into the making of maps but unmolested does it its regularly assigned work somewhere back in a oaf safe place in the rear this Is war as seen and felt by bv a man who was in the thick of it IL general harbord Is human through and through gil from tits his observations of the french you iou realize the variations of his man ly enthusiasms and manly resentments presentments resent ments but most important from the viewpoint of the historian the general Is a good observer with a pene trat ing sense of values as to what Is 18 interesting ile he writes frankly with a candid tongue using lan guage to convey meanings and not to disguise them time and again he ex expresses a whole admiration for john J Pe pershing find and when lie he writes my M chief we ve cannot hut but I alloe ll lee tile hie true warmth of feeling carried h lv tills phrase tills this loyalty arid and an fl fill 1 with ili charles charle s 0 G dawes later of tire the DIMS daive plan and of cool didgo and dives Div von niall alth the fullest en ell thu thuei ism forthe fur tie the throbbing human clidence of if tits ills hook book riad read what lie says in juno june 1918 after getting into action with tile the marine brigade what shall I 1 say of the gallantry with which thase magines have fought of the fire slopes slope of of f the mares farm of the dole hi Is de belleau and the village of Mure stained with their blood and not only taken away fro from the G ger mans in the full tide of their advance against the french bu feld by my bobs against counter attacks day after day and night after night I 1 cannot write of their splendid gallantry without tears coming tu rv my eyes 1 there here has never been anything better in the tha world what can one say of men who die for others who freely give up alco if for country and comrades what can call be said that Is adequate literally scores of these men have refused to leave the 11 wounded officers offlie era have arvo individually captured macdill guns gung and killed their crews I 1 have led platoons when their officers have hane fallen I 1 many companies have ha ve lost loat all their officers cert and been commanded by noncommissioned officers one of my young stert lieutenant moore bloore with the veteran ser geant quick a medal of honor bonor man volunteered to run an ammunition truck track down a shell swept road into the town of Dou bouresches Boure reaches the night we captured ap it and did it instances of men rushing out and carrying in wounded comrades which in other da days called for the award of a medal of honor honer have been so go frequent as to be almost common in this athla brigade here ii 19 his picture of general pershing general pershing ln to Is a very strong character lie he has a good many peculiarities such I 1 suppose as every strong man accustomed to command to la apt to develop ile he Is very patient and philosophical under trying delays from the war department lie he Is playing for high stakes and dots does not intend to jeopardize hla his winning by wasting his standing with the war department over small things relatively t though very as they occur mccu r lie he Is in cautious does nothing hastily or carelessly lie he spends much time rewriting the cables and other papers I 1 prepare tor for him putting his own individuality into then lie he Is the first officer for whom venom I 1 have prepared papers paper who did not generally accept what I 1 wrote for him it to Is very seldom I 1 get anything past him without some alteration I 1 am obliged to say I 1 do not always conal dele he improve Lm proves theria tham though aftin ati lit does llo ile milts edits ev curthine athing h in sign the nit ni t trivial things it I 1 IB it go bond lint but ono can air arlly I 1 to a point where it will waste enate time line that lint better bi be mp lood on bigger till isa but Is probably d in the preliminary stages tit in which we art arc lie he thinks think t very clearly and directly goes 1 lo 10 hla his conclusions conclusion directly when matters call all fur for tit 1 0 11 ile he call talk straighter to people when calling then them down than tiny ono one I 1 seen aei n I 1 have not yet it though I 1 li has naturally a 91 bood d disposition and it atin tji sense of junior humor 11 ho hosoa his hie rempei occasionally and nd stupidity and bagu ties nesa rr w c hlin him morn inori than nit ins thing eb else lie ila can st rid 11 plain lain talk lint but tit alio taff staff officer who goes in with only a aku kue nna afis w whore liere lie ha ought to have bertal certainty 1 I y who h d dues Q I 1 nut know what wha t lio lie w ciuta 1 tits and fu fumbles ab nb es ar u nd has i it s lost binjo and generally ruined gained ome gome str straight it lit I 1 talk s lk ile he develops deve loos lons great fondness for people whom lie hp IN lahea and Is indulgent toward their faults but at tire samo same time la in relentless when convinced of inefficiency personal loyalty loyally to f friends r is ig strong with him I 1 hould nay mity but does doe s not blind him to the tha truth writing of tie the early days lit in 1017 1917 ilni tit the A E V F wavan its infancy general iturburo boro found nit nil excella nt character chill lift cr study in ili bontia cont it ng the lie types ly by pershing and lite fr tich v oin anander Ivi aln bet between Neen choin leoin nt lit tills time little ditore existed astol ls tol not too cordial relation i hall I 1 1 I anys anvy ho 10 Is said to be known ns as retain the iho birler among ila his countrymen ho was ii a 11 owari of 0 1 bifi try tiff beauro t alie 11 war ivar it and id aught in tile ec ii iole ole tie dy 1 l lu ar irre terre an 1111 fur for the training of id nillar to that institution tin oil tire the banks ut of the v hc here ri I 1 benent so miny many long hours list winter lie li 19 r mail about airty seven I 1 ifould judge jude blut blui eyed blood and bald tu to theara tin erect berei t lit in hla his carriage arid and gives tie the impression Impre Falon of alestri alertness ts arid and ene emerey g y I 1 lie 1 la is extremely trint ly direct in ills his con ver atlon frank to the hunt lot of bj brusk nesa though to his own people lole nn as I 1 lio e brief ho he did not stein si em to rne me to fird tit th bound of its ills own voice at all dah 11 or tu to be particularly brief in getting ahr through agh what hp had to say perhaps brief bould be better translated as brusk bruch lie launched forth it a stream of tc teiei concone talk that practically hold held the center of the hie stage during the entire dinner pausing occasionally for the interpreter our major frank parker who la in on duty at french general headquarters and speaks french to berder him in english parker would get bet about halt half of it and would sometimes forget his bis subordinate role BB an interpreter for general it and reply on ell it ilia 11 own to general retain tile the latt latter erg s french we wag BO o distinct that I 1 was able to follow his conversation 0 fairly well petain seems very frank and direct in hla his dealing with general pershing lut but I 1 lieve not full faith that lie be regards these ei changeR on official matters at bot lal events tio no serijus seriously ly BB as we are apt to do cettei s that cun con from ills his star to ours or that are written by thern for his big sl nature are nul not alwa lit in accord with hla his ex pr solons at the table ri Is qu benlon aution uen lon tion of our relations with the hie breth high hehli conland coni 1 and Is in atin gnang to be maneu red by thein to rush our general gentral 1 ofa it tits alb feet if 1 lie iii is IB not extremely ext careful later I biter he of if pershing vi biting the freach front walh IN Cn cheral eral I 1 liing Is IR evidently studying etain i ery acry closely the 1 I in of the tha employment ot of our army Is to conte up franco hns hits ovar r a million nilly mily men in the itald the they Y nie are waiting art auml ours are arc coming should nothing go BO wrong and the w war r continue wo we filially line liae more mare than they a year from now for 1 ur the lie pre rit the french attitude altitude Is at times very patronizing we are doubtless bool lonan I upon soni aliat liat is nin though I 1 bell bellee le the average prof lonal level lit in our i ur ranks Is 19 than han thelt theirs 4 our num lira burts now w are of cour caurie cr urie trifila g but wo we are maink c hits has kilt it in several sug g tin hat ahat he h e bir b ir and 1 it in which aih he li lias bilard ill ai ar arrid around rid the word order without gulf fulti it hi will do well to onkit that word from frocil tits ills repertoire our general b Is ery en cautious caution thinks think very ry d deply ply t tikes rii no fat fals steps knows ajl ills ground and lie lic lri knows s who holds boms the whip ihla hand if one may inay use that i ird hird rd in ing of lelath relations irth w etli tin an ally fr dp nd on america and bhe ho BI I 1 al u not lep depo nl ja in vain wa W nil lit afford to 14 1 genus gen nen us ills and it shall hhall niver ni ver lii im aid that we aera not hut but our relations it will ill be explained 11 lo 10 acta pi tain 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