The New York herald., 1921-10-29
Sentimental Trip Through
Manhattan Moves Mar
shal to Tears.
MESSAGE TO AMERICA
'Peace of World Rests on Sacri-
flee of Dead for Common
Cause He Says.

Ferdinand Foch, Marshal of France
and supreme leader of the allied
armies, received from the people of
New York in the two hour and
twenty minutes of his passage
through the city yesterday afternoon
the st affectionate greeting, so far
as Professional observers could re-
call, that ever had been given to
foreign visitor in modern times.
Some such impression must have
touched the heart of the Marshal him.
self in this truly sentimental jour
ney through the streets of Manhat-
tan, for, although he told Ambassador
Jusserand and Consul-General Lie
bert just before his special train left
for Washington at 1896 p. NJ, that 1t
was the "bigness' of the greeting
that had fairly stunned him, there
were many times between the Bat
terry and the Pennsylvania Station
when his face was sunny with tears
as well as with smiles.
1t was that quality Of senstiveness,
of swift, though restrained, emotional
responsiveness to the warm clamor of
the streets through which he made his
progress that established instant liai-
son between Marshal Foch and the
half million that saluted him in Amer
ica's gateway. For the people very
obviously perceived in the flesh and
blood Foch certain traits of humanity.
delicacy, gentleness, impressionable-
ness even, that they had not detected
in the portraits OF this mathematically
military genius that had come from
over the water. They sew Foch so
much more attractive to the eye and
10 the instinct that lies behind the
eye than the Foch of familiar photo
graphs that they marvelled that the
camera had been so dull.
An Amazing Paradox.
Their straining eyes--such eagerness
to study the form and face Of q notable
visitor Is hard to recall-envisioned with
difficulty Foch, the relentless command
er master of the lives of ten million
mon, intellect all dominant; beheld with
the utmost ease Foch the spiritual,
eentle-souled, emotional dreamer 1t
was q paradox that amazed and en-
roptured the masses of people that
hailed his arrival. Wherever he moved
there was written upon the faces of
the people plain as print, rs it possible
that this very mild and lovable old
gentleman is the same whose terrible
resolution broke the back of GERMANY
There Is that In his soft blue eyes,
over which the lids habitually droop;
In the network of tiny laughter wrinkles
at the corners of his eyes; In the mild
contours of his long. slim face; in the
brushy, none too well cared for mus
tnchc; In the small. slight figure with
out military stiffness that, uniform out
OF the way. would inevitably suggest
tie scholar--the professor of science.
say-hardly the greatest captain of the
age.
One looks at Foch and SAWS to ones
self. what an excellent grandfather
this man must maker and reflects.
too. that even with his seventy years
he would play lovers part with en-
ccient grace and charm. But then one
looks more closely and certain features
and suggestions begin TO stand out and
go to alter first Impressions of the
Marshal, for these is something in those
blue eyes under the dropping lids, some
living, vital force back of them and
which occasionally flashes forth in in
tense moments that reveals the dynamic
qualities of the man. 1t Is not a brood
Ing eye. 1t Is free and frank and
twinkling with ready mirth. But IL is
deep. That Is the only word for It,
Foch looks at you and the thought that
li.htens his glance comes. you have the
impression. from an immeasurable dis
tsnce behind the eyes themselves In
these sudden. intense moments of Foch's
bearing one thinks of an eagle. The
comparison Is absolute.
The Marshaps Portrait.
Even at seventy. the qualities of
GaScon face support the revealments OF
.tht Sc astonishing eyes, for Foch has the
Icng nose and the almost bulgng Jaw
muscles that Dumas gave TO D'Artag-
nan. a ictional ncighbor OF the Mar
shals. and these married features ex-
pose ixity of purpose. keenness. re-
roJrcefulness At seventy The Marshal
has not come to old age. There is
strength and power in face and body.
but he gave the impression somehow
yesterday as II he had not been In the
ruygcdest of health.
one of the extraordinary things about
Foch. as the crowds noted yesterday.
IVES that. little as he Is. scarcely six
inches over FIVE feet. few even noticed
his structure or paused to apply the
yardstick Of the glance. For Foch Is
that kind of man. one may say. His
inches are of no Importance whatever
as he stands among men. 1t is the In
ternai qualities. the hidden force that
puts the head Of Foch on q level with
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