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Show MILLIONS ASK WHAT MANNER OF MAN IS MARSHAL FOCH? HERE IS ANSWER By Lieut. Col. E. Reguin Marahal "Koch la directing a battle In which are engaged simultaneously or sue-raaaivtly sue-raaaivtly l niilllun man uslumliig IU eight different natlona. agalnat Ocrminy. History will a how how he does U: I do not pretend to do so her, but because I served under him and at tlmee lived In hla Intimacy I may be permitted to recall two i pereonal metnoMce to which (he prwnnt leituation lend a certain interest. I In February, lilfc, following upon th terrible batile of Vprea, Koch aald -imply te uh: "The enmy offenalve upon the western front Is amaahed for some time to com, ft I a great triumph, by reason of the far reach of Jhe (iermtn plan (proposed conquest of tfi naval base); but it I still a negative succetts YY must aolv tha problem of th future use of our numerical euperiorlty." "A very difficult problem. Immediately exclaimed a general friend of hla. To which Forh retorted: "V grant you that the problem ia a difficult one, but that doe not concern me; It altera nothing In the necessity of eolvtng It. Therefore, gentlemen, make the beat use of your brain." And he returned to his studies. Kach of ua remembers his long meditations medi-tations before the man and the pad upon whlrh he put down the dally reflections of , a mind Incessantly at work. j Three year later, almoet day fnr day. ! on th J'th of Kahtruary. HIM I had been I talking with him about the military effort of the United Htatee he fixed on me that I profound gase of hta In whlrh I could read I the future and firmly aald.: "With the American force a Joined to the allied armies, I can surely find th formula of an offensive battle which will definitely smash everything before It." And he eif plMinetl m f- '' Tha 1 conviction with which he expressed him sel Is still graven In my memory. The "very difficult problem, from which already In 1916 Foch separated only the epithet In order only to recall the neceaatty of eolvlng It, is solved. The (battle begun on July It Is the same one of which he spoke to me In February. H directed It so energetically that Uermany. fatally stricken by the shortage of men ! and material ha eurrendersd before I Forh ha achieved, according to hla own expression, "the definite smashing of everything" before him. When historians write a boat Foch. let them remember thst this great Wader worked an entire lifetime with the sote , ambition of being ready en the day when hi country would hav need of him and with the conviction that that day would tne vitally com. I t them, then, note that. aMer forming hi mind throuch forty years of meditation upon rar, Koch baa never ceased studying, even during the war, adapting the beet' methona te tha new requirements, but especially applying rigorously those greet principle whlrh he had taught ua in peace time, with that ardent faith which he conveys to all thoee around him. And, I would like to suggest to thoee aame hlstorlane that they do not forget Foch'a high appreciation of America's fighting arm; that he needed S4rt AmerU can force jotnsd to those he already had to smash everything before him. He got the American forcea, a ad he did smash ths foe armies |
