Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1919-04-10

sirno of the allied armies was declared |
to be the very incarnation of will and |
believer in prayer, his own prayers |
and the prayers of others, by DIR. |
James j. Walsh OF New York. who ad- |
dressed meeting that packed the |
town hall to standing room limit Wed |
nesday night. DIR. Walsh. who is med !
ical director of F'ordham university |
school of sociology and professor OF
physiological psychology at Cathedral ;
college, New York, came here under
the auspices of the knights OF Column
bus, and at the close of his address
upon Marshal Foch made a brief ap-
peal for them to increase their men,
berShip from half million to a mill
lion members to greet this consumate
military genius upon his possible Wis
it to this country.
Mayor J. J. Desmond had seat upon
the platform with Dr. Walsh and MI
chael J. Coscoran, grand knight Of
White Cross council, No. Is, X. of c.
who briefly introduced DR.. Walsh.
Profacing his direct address upon
Marshal E'och, the speaker called the
attention of his deeply interested au-
dience to the fact that the century had
more wars to the square inch than any
other century. these including the
Boer war, Philippine war Russo-Jap
war, Italian Turkish war, first Bal
kan war, second Balkan war, and then
the great world war, eight altogether,
a war for every year and half
One of the surprises that it brought
to us was in the way it was waged.
! The prediction had been that men
| inventors were every thing and had
| eliminated man. But it was men
who won the war, for never had a
war been fought at such close quar-
| tiers and in the end it was the spade
| that beat the machine gun, the rifle
and the artillery.
| If you want something big done, you
| get q man who is big enough to do it,
and Foch was that man. Napoleon.
when he had more than 100000 men
usually lost his battles, but Foch COM
rlanded three and one-half million
men along only one side Of the front in
this war. His was a genius that lent
/! something of his own soul to millions
of men, who, in their confidence in him
were able to do things they could not
do before.
1t was an interesting observation for
himself. said the speaker, as a teach
er of psychology, to see that the Ger
mans, who had more teachers OF
psychology than any other nation
went wrong every time they applied
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this line. It was another interesting
thing that Foch. when he came into
this war, had never been in battle, had
never been under fire, but he was a
student. It was another vindicatior
of the professor, of which there are
three prominent examples before the
world today, Marshal Foch, President
Wilson and Cardinal MERCER of Bel
GUM.
IL aH-I,1
ton and career of Marshal Foch III
to the time he was made generalissimC
OF the allied armies and then went OF
to describe some of the military crise.
and the way Foch met them.
In a word about Americas partici-
patton in the conflict, DR.. Walsh sale
, that Foch knew how the American.
, would fight, but the Germans didn't
.. They know now. BY the 10Th of las
July, the Americans had twice pene
trated the German lines, and the Ger
man military leaders could see the be
ginning of the end. On arniStice da,
we had 1890 900 men on the lines 81
: that we certainly counted in the fina
result Foch signed the armistic
! with tears in his eyes because h
t knew Pershing, and his army wer
} camped across the main line OF com
= munication of 500, 900 Germans neal
[ Sedan who would have been compel
j ed to surrender in the next Is days. /
f | is notable fact. too, that for so
e years army after army has fought owe
t, and tried to take the Argonne foreS1
!. but none ever succeeded till the Amer
e leans showed how it could be done.
c Dr. Walsh continued his address i
|, part as follows:
: Marshal F'och is now recognized b
=
I military leaders of all history. Whe
: the unity of command was given hin
I ne was placed over more soldiers
l. the actual fighting line than had eve
Il been under a single general befor'
. How he directed this immense arm
Il to the hest advantage not wastin
lives, Yet attacking vigorously. once
y had held the enemy in his grand as
Z sauit announced as sure to get int
u Paris is now matter of history. Ono
). the tide of battle turned, there was II
II rest for the enemy and whenever tn
Germans attempted to shift the
forces so as to reinforce a positio
that was being attacked so that yield
NJ ing was inevita Bile, they found that a
:, most as sure as fate Focl1s next al
- tack would be at the weakened 500
~! and SO never letting up on the pres
T. sure, the German army that had seen
!, ed so invincible for four long veal
e was actually beaten almost before i
- leaders could realize what was hal
- pening. For now it is we'll know
= that before the end of July. the Gel
- man military staff began to recognii
~ that they were beaten and alread
- there was talk of the necessity of al
; | dication. The man who fought tn:
series OF battles on that line, taking a
a summer to do it and getting the mas
g nitlceD. results he achieved. is now II
10 focus Of the worlds attention. +
will 80 down in history as probab
the most wonderfully gifted general
armies that the world has ev
known. He knew all the theory of W;
as no one else in our time but h
= practice OF ii put a climax to all Il
=, art of war that the world had ev
II known.
= Perhaps the most surprising THU
"a to our generation in Marshal Foch
~ his deep religious spirit
~ The man who sent the telegram du
. ing the battle of the Marine met Ii
III divisional chaplain the morning of Il
| battle and said, DO pray for US Y
must advance or die at our posts. I
IS. MY trust is in God The day aft
in the victory he said to the Bishop
l. CahorS. "Monseigneur, do not thai
Id me, but Him to whom alone yicto
a belongs" His motto is that of t
or patron saint of his Jesuit brother. S
4 lgnatius, who said, DO everything
m il all depended on you and then e
as pect everything from God as if all d
ne pended on Him" Piety is often su
m posed to be a sign of some softness
w character but the Marshal of Fran
who beat the Germans used to pr
daily, was often seen in little chapt
! along the roadside, vet proudly d
'e' clared THE country calling it's,
r France cannot disappear. To be bea
ne en- is to disappear" Now we 10
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