Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-12

Americans who share In the sorrow
of the world at the passing Of Marshal
Joseph Joffre laud him as the hero OF
the battle of the Marine, despite the
controversy over the saving of France
in the World War. They see in the
French warrior the qualities that were
needed to turn the tide of battle, just
as in his last days he met the final
struggle.
"As the man of the hour in an emer-
gancy he looms as tower of strength,
declares the Ann Arbor Daily News
with the tribute: THE Rock OF the
Marne has crumbled. With the same
tenacity that featured his defense at
the Marine and Verdun, Marshal Joffre
fought death. The spirit was as strong
but physical inf1rmitieS were the handi-
cap that told the story of final defeat.
The North Adams Transcript says, II
the legend which grew up about Mar
shall Joffre in the early days OF the war
was ever dimmed, it was made Vlvld
again in the last days of his own lie,
when he fought the Entertainments OF
disease and the onward march OF death
with the same unyielding stubbornneSs
that saved Paris in 1914"
HE knew what to do and how to 90
it, and as a result his name is entitled
to a place among the immortals," AYERS
the Shreveport Journal, while the Kan
sas City Star, observing that he gave
inspiration to his own volatile people TO
hold firm in the crisis" concludes that
"it was this quality that gave him a
Jovian aspect at q time of gloom and
fear" The Seattle Daily Times views
the victory on the Marine as "one OF
the decisive battles of history" and
testifieS that America holds Marshal
Joffre in affectionate memory" the
Geneva Daily Times feels that people
of the opposing nations likewise recog,
nized his abilities and patriotism and
Join in regret over his death"
France may have Foch for her great
commander, but Joffre remains her
World War hero" according to the
Lincoln State journal, while the Al
toona Mirror maintains that his fame
is secure and that "his name will al
WAYS be honored, his deeds perpetuated
by the historic muse" The Detroit
News states that his fame will rest
on the great events in which he had a
part and not on the part he had in
them" but the San Antonio Express
asserts that he "will live In history as
q great commander WLOSe only dIilOA-
ton was service to his country"
"For 10 years after the war" says
the Rochester Times Union, "the con-
troyersy over who won the battle OF
the Marine ragged in Paris. And Joffre's
silence was taken by some to be tacit
admission that Gen. Gallieni was the
hero. Joffre's only reply was that he
had answered the 'damnable charges
in his Memoirs which would be pub
lished after his death. Whatever his
Memoirs reveal, however, the glory
that has been Joffres remains his in
death"
'"The simplicity, the personal charm
of manner, that is always conspicu5
out by the Portland Oregon Journal,
was notable In Joffre. This was out
standing in his visit to the United
States. On May 9, 1920, New York
gave Joffre such a welcome as had
greeted no other man on Manhattan
Island Like demonstrations greeted
him throughout his tour of the United
States, where he was universally hailed
as the hero of the first Marine, who met