The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-09-05
WHAT SAID
TO G FRENCH CHIEFS
Text of Article That Caused Suppression of EXPIRE
mier's Newspaper Hit Hard at Joffre and Warned
. People Army Was Mismanaged. '

Catholically. that I know no other than
that of the Divinity. and that / find
only too rarely manifested for my liking.
II might be explained that NJ. Meyer,
despite his name and appearance. 10 a
ferrent Catholic. ! have rubbed elbows
with co~mpetencies. and IL / do not be-
lieve In the competency of the infallible
people, rare qualities OF judgment. which
no examination can give. leave too much
uncertainty IN appreciation OF the others.
What can I do then but prosaicaily
Judge by results and endeavor above all
not to let my Judgment be formed too
late to repair an error? When Napoleon
gives us Marengo or Austerlitz pro-
nounce him not clumsy. II I had seen
him desperately set on a costly repeti-
ton of vain strategic movements, in
definitely repeated. ] should have ad-
vised him to make a new start 1.-THE
French word conveys the idea OF start
ing new proceedings or placing a new
mar in his placel.
"POwer to Speak"
IN. Meyer recognizes that the Sem
ate's Army Committee has lone ex-
ceilent work. No one will question that
when the committee will have power to
speak. Meanwhile I may perhaps be
allowed to say that ! have found a
competence Of information in that COM
mittee. and when a man who has never
spoken OF the command except to praise
1t Is brought. after a year. to claim the
light to criticise, with incontestible mod
Grafton. he has perhaps. good reasons
for so doing"
NJ. Meyer in his article said that he
himself had tried several times to utter
a warning against the tendency to ex-
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particular great leaders as liable to cause
dangerous reactions. but that the CEN
sorship had always cut out such warn
ings. NJ. Clemenceau declares that NJ.
Meyer has gone further than he has
n then quotes N. Meyers closing
words In the GduIois against laying a
finger on the present Generalissimo
Don touch Gen. Joffre !. t~raglcall,
cries the royalist writer. IN. Never /.
a firm royalist.l Alas. my good col
league, ran YOU tell me what power II
the world We have not touched? Yo,
know very well that God himself . .
but in this particular case, whence hav,
you received the gift OF recognizing tn,
men who should be spared on YOU
pointing them out? ! have not, how.
ever. proposed to touch Gen. Joffre.
have simply my intention o.
warning, him at the same, time as tn,
country itself, He Is a imam. I assur.
you, and not more. He has been abb,
to make a mistake, as you yoursel
recognize. He has need Gas we al
have) OF a control. and this contro
q know It better than you) Is not ex
ercised within the terms OF the Law
by a Government which has no othe'
absorbing thought but to look for {
shelter.
Have I not the right to think tina
It Is France which Is IN question. an,
as we have suppressed intangible king
q apologize TO o for it) 1t was no
In order that II could be said that
subordinate. however highly placed
could because his controllers failed II
their duty escape even the exercise o
the right Of remonstrance' which tn,
monarchy recognized"