Evening Star Newspaper, April 21, 1929, Page 16

| w16 11" FRIEND FOCH HAD il : Figured in Critical Decisions I i of Marshal During War and | Loyal in Peace. PARIS, April 20.—Gen. Maxime Wey- gand, the most intimate friend of Foch and the man upon whose shoulders de- volved most of the sorrowful detail of the late marshal's obsequies, ¢ontinues to occupy the suite in the Invalides Building where Foch housed his staff. Weygand assumed charge of the na- tional funeral for his departed chief, executing the involved details with the military speed and precision with which he had carried out Foch's instructions concerning the armies—and the fate— of several nations. Hatless and dishevelled, Gen. Wey- and, during the six days that elapsed tween Foch’s death and the obsequies, remained at the house of the marshal, personally receiving all the dlst_slx‘:gumhed visitors; was at the Arc de Triomphe for 14 of the 18 hours that‘the mortal remains were exposed there, attended the religious ceremony at Notre Dame Cathedral and walked with the mar- shal's grandsons from the church to the Invalides. £y Tribute by Foch. “Weygand, you are not nnlyma great general, not only a great commander of an army or a group of armies, but you are a great leader, a born leader,” Foch told his former chief of staff a few days before his death. Weygand was the only person not of the family to enter the sickroom, excepting the doctors, from the time Foch was strick- en down, on January 14, uhtil death, March 20. A thin, alert little man, looking fully a score of years younger than the 62 he may boast of, Weygand, when young- er and apparently more robust aides were on the verge of collapse from the strain, saw it through without a falter. Foch never failed to render publicly to Weygand the credit due to him for the invaluable work he had performed while chief of staff. ‘Weygand himself seldom mentioned his part of the task at the general staff. To Foch and Foch alone was the vic- tory due, Weygand always insisted. “A greater tactician than Hannibal or Tu- renne, on a par with Napoleon,” was the judgment of the general about his| chief. Worth in Polish War. Only once, as far as Weygand's in- timates know, did the general refer to! his share in the drafting of the plans | ‘which brought about the final ‘efeat of the central empires. It was during the attack of Soviet Russia upon Poland. The Red armies had swamped Poland, crossed the Vis- tula and were overflowing into the sub- urbs of Warsaw. The situation appeared desperate, and the Polish government appealed to France for assistance. Foch sent them Weygand. A supreme council of war at which all the Polish generals, with Marshal Pilsudski at their head, attended, was called immediately upon the arrival of ‘Weygand in Warsaw. A hasty investigation of the cam- paign had convinced Weygand that er- Tors had been committed by the Polish staff, that resistance had been feeble , at some points, entirely lacking else- where. Seizing a_huge red pencil. he began slashing upon the staff maps, marking spots where batteries should be placed for the defense of Warsaw. Pllsudski Queries Him. A complete plan was drawn up in a few minutes. - Pilsudski, the report says, first looked up in astonishment: then interrupting Weygand, said very slowly and de- liberately: “General, you-forget I am a marshal of Poland. I can't allow a French general of division to speak to me in those terms and that tone. There is only one man in the world from whom I should accept this sort of talk. -He is Marshal Foch.” Weygand hesitated a_moment, then blurted out: “Marshal Foch always in- vited the advice and suggestion of my- self and other members of his staff. That's why he was not only a great captain, but a great man.” “Continue,” said Pilsudski. Weygand received the King of the Belgians when the latter made a spe- cial trip to Paris from Brussels to visit Mme. La Marechale and view the body of Foch, the day after his death. Albert Honors Foch. “Your majesty is doing France a great honor by this visit,” Weygand told Albert. “T have come to see the last 6f a friend and the saviour of Belgium, the honor is mine,” the King replied. ‘Weygand .is regarded in military circles as the most capable general ia the French Army. Whether he will be made a marshal of PFrance or not the future alone can tell. 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