The Seward gateway daily edition, and the Alaska weekly post., 1918-04-19
THE MAN OF THE HOUR

Who is Foch? What has he done that supreme com mand of the allied armies should be entrusted to him? Is the greatest soldier fighting against Germany
 America is asking these questions. In the words of General Jofere who knows, General Ferdinand Foch IS the greatest Straegst in Europe and the humbeSt
 England just three years ago. asked questions sim liar to those America is asking now. King George had visited the front and conferred the Grand Cross of the Order of tine Bath-the highest military distinction in the form of an order within the gift of the British crown-on two Frenchmen. Jofre was one; Foch the other
 The leading London newspapers demanded of their correspondents in France to answer the inquiry, Who is Foch? Why the Grand Cross? Their answers com piled in the New York Times Current History thus
 Foch is the hero of the Mane, the who perceived on September g. 1914 that there must be gap between the PuSSian guard and the Saxon army and who gather ed enough artillery to crush the guard in the St. GOnd marshes and forced both the Pussian and the SaXonS now Seperated to retreat
 Foch IS the man of Ypres the commander who was in general control of the successful fight made by the French and the British aided by the Begians prevent the Germans from breaking through to Calais.
 Foch in short is one of the military geniuseS of the war
 He is a general who has something of the NapOeOnic in his composition; the dramatic in war is for him-se crecy and suddenneSS gigantic and daring movemnes; fiery yet codly calculated attacks; vast stratgic con- captions carried out by swift unfaerng tactic Foch has tendency the impetuous but he is impetuous scientifically He has however, taken all in al much more of the dash and nervousness and warmth of the Southern Latin than has JOfrecOO cautious tacitum Jotre. Yet both are from the south of France They born within a few miles of one another within three months of one another Foch being born October 2 1851 and Joffre on January 12,1852
 Most writers who have dealt with FOch agree that his paramount characteristic is his NapoeOnc mode ot military thoughts, When Foch director of the Ecoe de GueTe (war coege) where he had much to do with shaping the military views of many of the men who commanding units of the French armies he consider ed to be possessed of almost ObSeSSOn the subject of Napoleon He studied NapoleOnS campaigns and resud- led them He went back much further, however, in his choSe of master and gave intense application to the campaigns of Caesar.
 FOch makes it his business to know the officers and the When he went to the front he visited each mander the cOlOnes he called by name; the corps manderS without exception had attended his lectures at the EcOe de Guerre He gets into personal touch with the Napoleon used to dO He goes into the trench and the occupied villages and looks them inform
 ally makes useful comment drops phrase that is worth repeating and leaves behind him enthusiasm and respect French writer has said that FOch knows the human element in the French army better than any living
 His two great books "Principes of War" and Con duet of War; have been translated into English German and Italian and are highly regarded by military men,