The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-13

the least delay. Foch was over excited
Parts, Paris he kept exclaiming.
Paris has nothing TO do with this. Paris
Is far of. We must stop the Boche
here We need only TO repeat that again
he shall not pass. The Boche has not
passed. All that Is needed Is to give
the necessary orders and that done
three-quarters OF the task Is done, and
we will withdraw no further.
France Is not dead. Haig and Pc
tain are two men to hold with tirnness
against this opening with two doors. each
pushing behind his door. The. opening
has been wedged. and they are there to
watch the enemy be swallowed up
How can you check themr asked
NJ. Loucheur. who had approached.
Well, you know how | do things,
said Foch. See. stick piece of seal
ing wax there. another there and an
other there. Soon the Boche scarcely
can move. Then I stick another there
and they are gummed. The Boche is
stuck. One can always stick the Boche.
'Ciemenceau hao come up and lis
tened He leaned over Loucheur's Shout
der and said:
HES a dangerous fellow.
The English conference broke UP NJ
this moment. and the Frenchmen Joined
their allies. Lord Miner represented the
British Government. Hang had the
strained and wearied expression of a
| man who has not rested Tor three days.
"Poincare explained the situation. say
| ing the point was to stop the Germans
where they were and not anywhere else
| Haig spo &c next. He said he would do
/ all he could to halt the Germans at
Amiens.
F0ch Becomes Excited.
LAS these words we're spoken Foch
jumped to his feet. Striking the table
with his fist. he exclaimed:
mo. Marshal. no! 1T is not Amiens
that matters. They must be defeated be-
fore Amiens. We must defeat them
waare they are
in his abrupt way Foch repeated
the argument he had used in the square
outside. saying II would have been better
if the Boche had been stopped at the
Somme. but now there was no choice
left. and he must be halted, and II
would only be necessary to give the or
ders and he would be halted.
Miner made signal to Clemenceau
after this speech and left the table.
Clemenceau Joined him. there could De
heard a low dialogue, and several times
Miner could be heard saying. There is
the man. Haig Joined them. He had
been aware from the first days OF battle
that there -7as lack OF unity between the
allied armies.
eff this Is continued the result will
be a debacle.' he said. There Is only
one remedy. There must be supreme
commander above me and above Petain.' ;
"Haig then said he would be willing
f., to follow the commands of Foch.
"Haig had telegraphed this deter
mination to his Cove nm Mt forty-eight
| hours before. Afterward he told M
| Poincare. he had telegraphed to Lon
| don to senr n representative of the
British Government to the conference
| TO MAKE the nomination of Foch as SUI
preme commander.
| "Clemenceau turned toward the table
where the others remained in CONVERSE
ton. He spoke in loud voice. saying
he proposed to Gen. Petain to do what
Hajg had DONE and to place himself
under the orders of Gen. Foch. Petaln,
no less periodically, expressed the same
sentiment Foch did not hesitate to ac-
| cept.
! "Loucheur made copies OF the declara-
| ton to the effect that Gen. Foch was
| to coordinate the action of the two
armies. II was signed with n pencil on
a loose sheet OF note paper. II was
| thus that decision to create n supreme
chief for the Allies was reached. 1t was
evident that Foch had what he wanted
Poincare, too. The thing they desired
was but to save the armies. Paris and
| France"
Lausanne recalls that Haig. after the
end OF the war. told Poincare that he
went to Doullens convinced that only
| appointment of Foch to supreme COM
mand would avert the disaster which
threatened. II Petain's order was carried
| out.