Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-12
.JOffre Still Hero of Marine
AS Death Ends Controversy

the Germans in their first onrush and
that for q time were on the point OF
Keeling and falling back"
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Perhaps the best beloved Of allied
generals in the World War;" Is the
tribute of the HaverhH Gazette, WINE
the Oshkosh Daily Northwestern holds
that nothing can dim the glory OF his
achievement" and the Hamilton (Ohiol
Evening Journal believes that che will
ever be regarded as one of the greatest
of military leaders" The Hamilton (On-
tario) Spectator says, Nothing sue
ceeds like success, and the world in
paying grateful tribute to the deceased
marshal looks back to those anxious
days when the brilliant strategy OF the
commander turned retreat into an
attack and reversed the tide OF fortune"
What estimate history may place
upon Joffres military talents" remarks
the New orleans Times-Picayune, none
can as yet predict, but we do not be-
lieve it ever will be possible for time to
take from him that intense admiration
won for him when in her greatest mo-
ment of peril France experienced what
in military annals" The New Castle
News states that eff the victory at the
Marine was miracle the miracle
worker was Marshal Joffre."
1.-THE part played by Marshal Gallieni,
military governor of Paris, in the mir
acle of the Marne,'" according to the
Charleston Is. c. News and Courier,
brought him posthumous honors,
but as the generalissimo of the
French forces the glory was heaped
upon Joffre. He became a military flg-
ure of almost legendary proportions. He
caught the imagination of France and
her allies. When the United States en-
tered the war against Germany Papa
Joffre came with Rene Viviani, French
Minister of Justice, to this country to
advise with American leaders respecting
American participation in the allied
cause. Americans greeted the hero or
the Marine with emotional enthusiasm.
They listened to his simple statements
of what the French were doing. They
were impressed by the soldier who had
been in supreme command OF the
Joffre was indeed a name to conjure
with"
ut was the stolid mountain of man
in command of the French armies at
that time who symbolized the victory"
declares the Lynchburg News, while the
youngstown Vlnd1catOr recalls: The
order that Marshal Joffre gave on the
eve of the battle of the Marine will be
remembered when some future Plutarch
writes his life. On September 6, 1914,
he sent this general order to his army:
AT this moment when battle is about
to commence upon the result of which
the salvation of our country depends,
no one must look behind. All must
unite to attack and repel the enemy.
Any troop finding itself unable TO hai-
vance farther must hold the ground 9k
all cost and must fight until death No
retreat Stirring words that had their
effect at the moment and will be an
for all time"
when Marshal Joffre, Viviani, Bal
four and other distinguished men of
Britain and France came to Washing
ton in the Spring of 1917" states the
Raleigh News and Observer, most of
them stressed the essential need of
money and supplies and munitions, say
ing that If these were accorded at once
there need not be much haste in send
ing over great armies. But Joffre, great
soldier that he was, urged Secretary
Baker to send over at least few thou
sand troops as soon as possible, saying
that the presence of American troops
on the firing line would hearten French
soldiers and be notice to Germany of
the millions who were to follow. Joffre
was wiser than the statesmen"