Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-09

on compromise basis and something
akin to despair was abroad in the land.
Weygand was offered command Of all
the Polish forces. He declined that
honor. He had come simply to advise.
There was general council of Polish
generals. Weygand rose to address
them. pencil in hand, map hanging
at his side. With slashing strokes he
explained where he thought batteries
should be placed to defend the capital,
from what areas troops should be with
drawn, to what places they had best be
sent. Some of the Poles expressed dis
agreement with part of his plan, among
them Marshal Pilsudski In few words
Weygand told him what was what, as
he saw it.
General, you forget am a marshal
OF Poland" PilsudSki was said to have
remarked. II cannot allow a French
general of division to speak to me in
those terms or in such a tone. There
is only one man in the world from
whom I should accept this sort of talk.
His name is Monsieur lie Marshal Foch."
Weygand replied, Marshal Foch al
ways invited advice and suggestions
from myself and others of his staff"
"Continuez." said Pilsudski.
Weygand did. Under his inspiration
and with the assistance of 900 officers
lish armies hurled back the advance of
the invading Reds. Three weeks after
his arrival in Warsaw Weygand was
being hailed at the savior of Poland"
Four more months of fighting and the
Poles had won complete victory. They
counted captured Russian prisoners by
the tens OF thousands. Only Budenny's
cavalry in the south remained and it
was galloping back to Russia as fast
a fol
gand made ready to return to France.
Delegations that came to bid him god
speed and to thank him told him he
was Poland's savior.
NO" he said. Preparatory military
operations were executed by Polish gen.
erals according to the Polish plan. My
role, as well as that Of the other French
officers. was limited to filling certain
gaps in the details of execution. 1t is
the Polish nation that has been its own
savior. This magnificent victory con-
Solidates the Polish state, whose exist
ence is indispensable to Frances ex-
istence."
On reaching home, where the post
war rumblings of revolutionaries had
not yet been Gained. Weygand had
something to say about the Red menace
he had seen in the Northeast.
"Bolshevism is an atrocious system"
he told the French public in brief
statement. Its tyranny is 10 times
worse than that of the Gear. I hear
now that certain persons are wishing to
conclude an accord with Lenin and
am astonished. 1t is shameful thing
to make compact with crime. Persons
may say that economic and political
reasons call for concilatory policy
with regard to the SovietS. Well, I'm
not political man at all and do not
understand politics, but am a soldier,
and as a soldier see that Bolshevism
constitutes a grave military danger to
my country. That is enough for me-"
Decoration Of Conqueror.
France decorated the returned con-
queror with the sash and cross of a
grand offlcer of the Legion Of Honor.
He promptly slipped out Of the limelight
and back into his ONCE in those small
military buildings along the Boulevard
DIES Invalides, on whose roofs the sink
ing sun throws the shadow of the gilded
dome that shelters the tomb of Ma
poleon. The door of Weygand's ONCE
opened into the room where Foch
worked every day, surrounded by his
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