Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-11-16
A MAN Very Like the Stored Gen. Grant
Fighting Character Of Roosevelt-He
the Menacing Shadow Of Prussianism-"E
the PEOPLES of the Defeated Countries Are |


the great French soldier in an appro-
pirate manner, but 10 and behold. be-
fore l could put my lesson TO practice
l discovered the marshal was not IN
uniform. Inasmuch as l mad never
pictured him in any other garp'
was taken by surprise, and before
had recovered he had crossed the
room and shaken my hand with firm
grin of friendship. Then, with GAL
liant wave of his hand. he motioned
me to be seated.
He wore a blue serge suit win
sack coat, lavender cravat ana plue-
striped shirt. Later, when we went
out into the garden, he wore cap
1t was Foch on his vacation, the va
cation toward which he had to hght
his way against the Creates power
ever assembled for 'o''"
He is a man of medium height, with
a long graying msutache. HIS halr'
too, is CRAVING, and is thinned over
the forehead and top of the head, but
becomes thicker toward the back.
And his bearing is magnificent. he
need not wear uniform to be recog-
nized as a soldier and a commander.
In manner he is very direct. He looks
you straight in the eye and holds
you as though he would read your
thoughts and analyze them. He
speaks with emphasis and directness.
but even in his most emphatic mo-
ments there is always the courtesy
OF the well-cultured man. He is like
all really great men, direct and posi-
tive and yet with another side that is
all gentleness and charm.
Nine Foch opened the conversation
by telling the marshal of my mission
and that l was interested in her
plans for the relief of those in want
in France" The marshal listened and
when he had got the trend of affairs
in hand took charge of the situation.
He began questioning us, and as we
explained one point after another he
would slap his hands together and
say, Bon bon" (good, good) and so 1t
continued until l had fully gone over
the points upon which l wished to
have his impressions. During this
preliminary conversation | could not
uul loIIu III lily HnIHu picture OF tnlS
wonderful man in action in the field
when reports were made to him from
the widely scattered officers under
his control.
l could picture him listening, just
as he listened to me, all attention.
and ready as soon as the situation
was made clear to make the quick
- decision Of the man of strength and
f1nality. He wants the facts in any
situation in the quickest possible time
and in the fewest words necessary
to clarity. That was the first charac-
teristic which impressed me. AS the
time went by and we got better ac-
Quainted he warmed to the CONVEX
sation and we became more friendly.
At the moment of his entrance I had
been talking to Nine. Foch about
bolshevism. She turned to her husband
and told him about it, and the CONVEX
sation Immediately jumped to that
topic
"Bolshevism." he said. in his quick.
emphatic manner. lis a state OF mind
under which the peoples of the defeated
countries are laboring. The gilded
promises made to the people in these
countries Dy the autocratic powers
which ruled them that out of the war
they would annex riches, and the failure
OF these powers to lead the people to
the wealth and luxury which they crave.
have placed these poor people in a
state of demoniacal establishment and
frenzy, resulting in their killing and de-
stroying everything in their paths in
their abject hopelessness.
This condition." continued the mar
shall, lis natural result of the chagrin
and disappointment of vanquished mill
taristic nations. But il is certain this
condition will pass. When these pcopie
realize that the victors in the war were
fighting for a noble and just cause, the
salvation of civilization threatened by
their selfish masters they will recognize
that the war ended i'm the only possible
way 1t could have ended and i'm the hest
way for them as well as for the peoples
of the other nations of the world. II ia
just as 1t is in life. A patient who has
been i'll. when he passes the crisis is not
yet recovered. He must first pass
through long period of convalescence
before he fully RECEIVERS his strength and
can again fill his proper place in the
world"
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