The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others . riorlines, undivided control, and ho-mogeneity of fighting by circumstances,Foch had acted with a decision and promptitude whichinspired all under his command with confidence in hisability to lead them to victory. Operating in a restrictedarea with the sea at one time behind him, the obligationrested on his shoulders of defending certain strategical ob-jectives, from each of which it was of vital necessity to shutthe enemy out. First
The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others . riorlines, undivided control, and ho-mogeneity of fighting by circumstances,Foch had acted with a decision and promptitude whichinspired all under his command with confidence in hisability to lead them to victory. Operating in a restrictedarea with the sea at one time behind him, the obligationrested on his shoulders of defending certain strategical ob-jectives, from each of which it was of vital necessity to shutthe enemy out. First it was Amiens, then it was Calais, andnow it had been Paris. This had limited the strategical free-dom of the General-in-Chief, and tied his troops to definitecenters. Reserves had to be so disposed that they could beassembled in the shortest possible time and with a maximumof speed at any point threatened by the enemy.^® 3« Principal Sources: Hilaire Belloc in The Tribune (New York), The Fort-nightly Review (London), William L. McPherson in The New York Tribune;The Times, The Evening Post, New York ; Associated Press dispatches. 162. General von Hutier VII REIMS AT ANY PRICE AND CANTIGNY AGAIN —KUHLMANNS WAR AIMS SPEECH AND WILSONS WORDS AT MOUNT YERNON June 16, 1918—June 21, 1918 BY the third week in June a question that was beingdebated in Paris with increasing interest, was, whetherthe Germans, after all, possest, as had often been assumed,anything like a crushing superiority in numbers on theWestern Front. The tendency was more and more to dis-credit the theory that they really had such numbers. Manywere asking whether the whole tradition of German numeri-cal superiority ought not to have been given up long fact that the Allies, since the end of March, had beenable to bring four great German offensives to a standstill,and that the German High Command was known to havesent urgent orders to bring from Russia to the Western Frontevery available German soldie
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