Was Foch greater than Clémenceau? The commission on finance of the Chamber of Deputies lately favorably reported two money bills which seem to answer. The first appropriates 2,500,000 francs for a tomb to Marshal Foch. The second, while recalling that "Clémenceau was the Organizer of Victory and the Savior of France," appropriates for a statue to him 100,000 francs—exactly 1/25 of the sum to be spent on Foch.
Simultaneously in Paris, London and New York last week appeared the book Clémenceau finished a few days before his...
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