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38 FOCH CALMED HIS ‘French War Leader Never Failed to Live Close to Realities. Bugnet, aid de camp to | from June. 1921 [ the real Foch, be withheld 'from BY COMMANDANT BUGNET. t The Star and North n Newspaper Alliance Healthy, balanced, normal, alloting to each thing the precise ;mpnrlmv‘ol which it deserved, knowing what he| should do, and simply doing it—in the hour of tragedy, face to face with dan- ger, even, as later, amid the aura of | glorv, Marshal Foch never ceased to | live clese to the realitics of life. The body makes certain demands. One | must submit to this necessity. There | is no better met The marshal regarfed this necessity in the light of a duty to fulfill. Formerly he was a keen horseman. Later he compelled himself to take| "y, daily walks, as he considered that walk- ing was excellent for calming the mind, keeping the muscles in good order, and Not Things to Despise. “Exercise is necessary to enable the M body to function properly: work, to keep the mind at its highest pitch. |P! Yes. Work, exertion, effort—that is| what produces results. One must Work | all the time and take exercise to kcrp{q the mind as fit as the body.” These considerations, obvious though | they may appear, did not seem to him | things ot despise. On the contrary, he liked to repeat them, in order to em- |harmonized with his taste for order phasize all the importance he attached |and authority, his demand for discipline to_them. “One must lead a regular life.” The marshal willingly complied. His official | duties were constantly laying traps for | him. He did not let himself be caught. | “T never indulge in excesses.” At all of mastering it.|,4"poured out upon a man who had the official banquets or dinners, “I never take more than I need.” No more did journeys and ceremonies secure any hold over him. “I am a mere parcel. I let them pack me up. They exhibit me, then store me away again.” As a matter of fact, his health was) “Did your parents live long?” Father Lived to Be 77. “No. My father ate nothing when he woke in the morning and at 11 o'clock he had only a couple of eggs. He did not get enough norishment. He died at the age of 77." ‘Standing solidly upright on his bowed legs, with his head and shoulders square cut, knotted like an oak with his short and powerful limbs, the mar- shal gave an impression of strength not belied by the cast of his features, which | were thrown into prominence by the | deep lines of his face. “Is it true, sir, that you once at- tended the maneuvers without notic- | ing that you had scarlet fever?” “Yes, or almost true. It was while| T was at the staff college, on a staff | ride that I was conducting; When we | reached the scene of operations I felt perhaps a little tired, as the weather was frightful; but the eadets were there. On my return, I was peeling. | I consulted a medical officer. He said | THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. votive offering, on the walls of Metz Cathedral. Oh, I shall do it! I have promised!” Such were the two torches which lit up his spiritual life, and whose gleam was so real to him that I have seen him abandon himself—a rare occur- rence—to his twofold emotion in the course of a patriotic and religious cere- mony. It was at Colmar, one Summer Sun- day. At the open-air mass, celebrated on the race course, while those present were taking up in chorus the refrain of a hymn I saw that the marshal joined with them in, the singing of “I Am a Christian.” Almost Apologizes. A few months later, for the first time, at the close of a banquet, while the guests were chanting the “Marseil- laise,” I saw the marshal cry with them, “Allons, enfants de la patrie!”—an ex- traordinary act on his part, for which he half apologized: “To sing a full- throated ‘Marseillaise’ in Alsace, when formerly one was forbidden even to hum it—I know no greater pleasure!” That day his face was transfigured | by the most noble joy, and I could read | in it the true and sincere expression of his spirit, and pierce the mystery in which he too jealously wrapped himself. “Once, my motto was knowledge and conscience. I still keep it today, but | to me. ‘You must have had a fever'| , g cav “rather, conscience and knowl- “That is quite possible.’ T replied. ‘You | agoe " Yes, conscience first, for that is | have had scarlet fever,’ he went on.” Was Stern Taskmaster. A stern taskmaster toward himself, | pilgrimage in the month of August to| - what matters more.” Fach year the marshal broke off his holidays to go and make his annual he was no less so to others, and did | Gorey (Meuse). not allow his colleagues to pamper | themselves. has not taken a single day's leave | throughout the war. accident to his hand he kept on work- There, in one of those fields which “Weygand is like me! He are like so many others, but which the drama of 1914 has made sacred, a com- | Even after the | mon grave makes a ridge in the ground. There are wooden crosses. One bears | ing.” He was proud of it. lthls simple legend: “Germain Foch, | On the other hand, what sarcasmssubaltern of the 131st Infantry, killed| to take care of his health: “It is not surprising! It is his own fault! He| never takes any exercise, never moves | You see, most people throw | themselves out of gear.” at Gorcy August 22d, 1914.” Simple Gesture Bared Grief. Before it the marshal uncovered and knelt. For a long moment he would remain rapt in prayer, with no lenI hIx\dlscnet g‘uest)olns S”“‘fi“’"ffi ;oull:d but a shaking of the head. This ges- er. and |y oir way into the mail which heture, at once simple and _significant therefore insuring a good night's rest. | oheneq each morning. | token of his grief in the presence of “What is your opinion on the im-| what could not be healed, was deeply ortality of the soul?” he framed this blunt reply, the marshal tore up the letter containing the in- parade his personal bellefs. Religion Harmonized With Taste. ‘We was a fervent Catholic. Religion human in its unaffectedness, moving in “For myself, I cannot doubt it,” he its simplicity, and, coming from such a ronounced categorically. And even as | man in such a place, more eloquent than any words of sorrow. His only son, a young man of 25, fell uiry, not deeming it necessary to|there. There he lies, not divided from his fellows in arms. The conqueror of the war has not even been able to re- cover his relics. Neither of his son nor of his son-in- law did one ever hear him speak. The day he heard of their deaths—he was and permanence, as also toward his|at Chalons—he asked simply that he demand for nobility. part of his patriotism: “T always used to tell myself, in the | hour. “Now let us get on with our work.” old days, that I should not like to die till T could hang up by saber, as a He made it a|should be left alone for a while, and stayed shut up in his office for half an ‘Then calling back his officers, ‘To remain absolute master of oneself, Old-fashioncd Veal s Ham Pie [PENNSYLVANIA]] THIS WEEK ON THE LIBERTY LIMITED “And when the pie was opened—" dining cars—old-fashioned Peal and Ham Pie, Pennsylvania. suppressing one's feelings, is one of the hardest and most vital duties of the commander-in-chief. He has to stifle all that might impair his efficiency, turn him from his goal, distort his judgment or weaken his decision. The death of his own beloved ones is a heavy blow. There exists another—the vision of thousands whom an order sends to their death. It is the weak commander, not the strong, who incurs vain sacrifices. ‘The price of victory must be paid, but it is the latter who pays it less dearly. “It is hard to see so many fall. The sacrifices were bloody, cruel. And the more cruel they were the more clearly they laid on us a higher duty—they must not have been in vain.” “Before taking such a decision I looked at it from all sides. If I deter- mined it, it was because I had no option to do otherwise. It was not I, it was necessity that commanded.” In his next article Commandant Bug- net tells of Marshal's Foch's disappoint- ment when the French government re- fused to permit him to accept American and other foreign honors for his war services. 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