Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-10

those other immortals, the great generals of
all time.
In the Academy he sits with Barres, Bour
get, Anatole France, Lott, Provost the novel
list Bergson and Poincare, the philosophers;
Breux and Capus, the dramatists; De Reg
nier and Richepin the poets; Hanotaux,
the historian, and Clemenceau, the states
man, and Joffre, the soldier.
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TIME emphasis in this list in on things of
l. the intellect upon literature and art and
thought, upon ideas.
And Foch himself was a man of books,
student, theorist, u teacher whose actual
field experience before 1914 had been slight.
For him war was an idea, conflict of
ideas.
He brought to it what he described in a
phrase that stamps him worthy of his pres
ent company, Intelligent audacity.'
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TT MEANS something to the world to
1 have set up in place of the race formerly
dominant on the continent of Europe whom
it was the fashion for the whole world to
initiate, a people who cannot think of any
higher honor to pay their victorious general
than to put him into the company of think
ers and poets and novelists.
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ND it means something to the world to
"A have the winner of the war a man who
wrote:
The moral factor is the most important
element in war; the will to conquer sweeps
all before it. There is a psychological
phenomenon in great battles which ex-
plains and determines their result. One
| hundred thousand men leave ten thousand
of their number dead upon the ground
and acknowledge themselves beaten they
| iAfn rhn how Loaf
as many men, il not more Neither one
! side nor the other knows, when they with
draw, what its own losses have BEEN nor
how heavy those of the opposing force:
| therefore it is not on account of material
damage, still less from any possible com
| putaton OF figures, that the losers give
| up the struggle.
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THE French care for ideas as ideas. The
l. Germans cared for ideas as means to
| give Germany a place in the sun.
To paraphrase Napoleon's saying Europe
| of the future will be French or Cossack
And the Russian cares for ideas too in a
| much more passionate way than the French,
who, like the Greek, never does anything in
| excess. ''''''''''
ItI IKE the Greek''-a writer in the
IL "Revue Bleue" says the French re
semble more the ancient Greek than the
Roman. Latin he declares the French is not ;
in language certainly, but in race tempera =
ment, habits of mind not Latin at all, but a
| "Gaulois," a Celt.
The war has brought one os Times great
est revenges.
For that little excursion of Henghist and
Horsa across the North sea from the cont
nent to the old home of the Celts in Britain
the Celt has paid the Saxon back in his own
time and in his own way.
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WHO stopped the latest push of the Teutor
w westward to the Atlantic? Who wer,
the great men who achieved the victory? Tn,
Celtic Foch, the Celtic Clemenceau, tho
Celtic Lloyd George, and the Celtic, in part
at least, of the Scotch, Presbyterian Wilson
Evidently something in the Celt which his
tory. as written in the days of extravagan
Teuton worship. overlooked as it paid il
tribute rather pityingly to the Imagination
poetry, enthusiasm. love Of liberty In th,
Celt,b but dismissed him as one Of the world,
/ iDcohpetents.