The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others . whole counte-nance would seem to participate in the expression. While oftenungracious he had in him much real good nature. When livingat Metz he often seemed stiff and autocratic in public, but thosewho called at his modest home found him willing to grant favorsand quite eager to make friends.^ •Compiled from an article In Current Opinion, by Alexander Harrey, andone in The Times (New York), by F. Cunliffe Owen. 108 PERSONAL SKETCHES OF WAR LEADERS FERD
The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others . whole counte-nance would seem to participate in the expression. While oftenungracious he had in him much real good nature. When livingat Metz he often seemed stiff and autocratic in public, but thosewho called at his modest home found him willing to grant favorsand quite eager to make friends.^ •Compiled from an article In Current Opinion, by Alexander Harrey, andone in The Times (New York), by F. Cunliffe Owen. 108 PERSONAL SKETCHES OF WAR LEADERS FERDINAND FOCH, Marshal of France and AlliedGeneralissimo Some one given to aphorisms said that Joffre was made Chiefof Staff because he seldom or never rode horseback/ a remarknot so senseless as it might sound when one considered thetemperament of the French, and the fact that some man, givento the spectacular, with elements of a conqueror in his nature,had often exerted a tremendous influence over them, providedthat, combined with ability, he had a commanding personality,such as Joffre did not have. Joffre did not ride on horseback—. THE ftCOLE DE GUERRE IN PARIS Here Marshal Foch was long the director of the school. Under him were trained many French officers prominent or active in the war or at least seldom did—and was not an impressive figure even onthe ground, so short and stout was his build; but there was anothergeneral in France of such superb ability that Joffre himself hadtermed him the greatest strategist in Europe—a man who hadreal personal magnetism, and was a masterful rider of horses, infact a man on horseback of the type whom the French haveoften honored—Ferdinand Foch. Foch was a soldier of equalexperience, of about the same age, and from the same part ofFrance as Joffre, and with Joffre had won the British GrandCross of the Order of the Bath. Before the war Fochs services 109 SKETCHES, PEACE, TREATY, CHRONOLOGY to France had been notable in tlie effort
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