New Britain herald., 1930-05-23
PERSH|NG SILENT
 0N VICTORY ROW
Declines to Mix in FOCh-CIenlen- Ceau Controversy

Paris. May g. IP-The undts- gulsed hope of the French albeit tiEged with alarm that General Pershing would hop aboard the CIemenceau-Foch controversy be- yond the tomb, in which former President-Premier Poincare recently joined, was dashed 10 the ground when the commander of the A. |. F. landed at Cherbourg recently.
 T have nothing to say.' General Pershing told reporters, and if did have something to say l should prefer to say nothing
 Interylewers pointed out that two entire pages Of Clemenceau's book
 Grandeurs and Miseries of Vic
 ry' described the state of affairs hind the American Armys lines
 the ArgonDe, as "chaos" but
 neral Pershlng refused to com ent
 A few days after Marsh7' "och dled, book written by NJ l. ond ReCouly. noted French author, purported to quote Foch in some statements which left no doubt as to the allied commandcr-in-ch chiefs opinion concerning Georges Clem- enceau, generally knoWns here as the Father of Victory"
 This was in March, 1929, and Clemenceau immediately began to work on his hook. "Grandeurs and Mlserles Of Victory" laboring 50 hard that he came 10 an .untim fly death-so the doctors say-at the age of 88.
 T hate to start q controversy over a coffin" the Tiger wrote, but my silence would be construed as acquiescence."
 Thereupon he proceeded to lam hast the dayllghts out of F'och, in cidentallN taking pot shots at Poincare and Pershing.
 The reference to the American Army which caused interyiewers 10 try and obtain General Pershing's comment read: "Foch himself de- manded supreme command Of the allied armies, and suddenly stricken with paralysis of the will power failed to exercise 1t. He refused in September, 1918, 10 give Per shing the orders imperiouslv neces- sary to the good of the country. I had to enjoin him in writing to enforce his athority."
 Foch as quoted by ReCouly had already replied to this attack:
 T never so much sought to com msnd as I did 10 bring thdse around mo to concur with my ideas. To command is rothing; what Is re- quired is to understand the char acter of those you are dealing with and to make yourself understood by them. To understand one an- other, that's the whole secret Of life"
 One commentator, rather melan- choly, says: ''Foch and Clemenceau never understood one another and there IS the whole secret"
 Some of the amenities exchanged between the Commanders in Chief Of the Allied Armies and the French War Premier are in the following 1 order: I
 Foch; "Clemenceau is going toiI the United States to whimper and scntlmentalize. like the old dotard he is" This is alleged to have been said when the Tiger visited the United States during the | French American debt controversy. | Clemenceau: 'Foch was an in- l subordinate soldier"
 Out of the flood Of comment 1 which this post-mortem duel is crc- 1 ating in France, there emerges T | general feelng of regret that such situation should have arisen.
 Poincare summed it up by saying I that Foch and Clemenceau both ! greatly served their country. and | in time. this alone will be remem- bered.'
 Circulation is largely responsible \