Show what foch told general who hold line there is a fine story being told of f marshal foch one day during the last war when the position of things was critical and further retreat would have endangered the whole line one of his divisional generals sent him a message saying that he could not continue to hold a certain line of trenches which had bad b become come untenable in n reply the marshal sent him this message if you cannot hold on you must advance it is a great motto for life and the power to advance in such circumstances cum stances is where the great test comes |