...Governments and with the approval of Petain and Haig, signed their names to the following document : General Foch is charged by the British and French...understanding with the generals-in-chief, who are requested to furnish him with all necessary information. A halting, lame, almost pitiful commission...

...governments and with the approval of Petain and Haig, signed their names to the following document : General Foch is charged by the British and French...understanding with the generals-in-chief, who are requested to furnish him with all necessary information. A halting, lame, almost pitiful commission...

...by the Germans. March 25. — German troops are in Noyon and Paris is in acute danger. March 26. — Foch is charged by the British and French governments...action of the Allied Armies on the Western Front, and the great French strategist becomes Commander-in-Chief of the Allied forces m France — British,...

...formula which everyone has used since the morning to define the battle which had to be won before Amiens: "General Foch is charged by the British and French Governments with coordinating the British and French operations before Amiens." Here General Foch stops the President: "Better make it...

...British generals, met Poincare, Clemenceau, and the French military leaders. 1 It was settled that:' General Foch is charged by the British and French...action of the Allied armies on the Western Front/ For a few more weeks he was compelled to carry through the task 'more by negotiation than by command/ but...

...Clemenceau sits again at the table and takes pencil and paper. He reads as he writes (in French) : General Foch is charged by the British and French Governments with co-ordinating the British and French operations before Amiens. Foch interjects : " Better make it on the Western front."...

...Haig and Petain, President Poincare, Clemenceau, and Lord Milner, at which General Foch was charged "with coordinating the action of the Allied armies on the western front." A glimpse of these dreadful days is given by Commandant de Cosse Brissac, who was with the headquarters...

...armies. General Foch reminded the conference that the Doullens arrangement stated that he was charged with coordinating the action of the Allied armies on the western front. Thi.s implied that if there were no action there was nothing to coordinate. If the French were taking...

...Amiens and appointed to the position sixty-seven-year-old Foch, signing their names to the following: "General Foch is charged by the British and French governments with coordinating the action of Allied Armies on the Western Front. For this purpose he will come to an understanding with the generals-in-chief,...

...actions of the Allied armies on the western front. He will arrive at an agreement, to this effect, with the generals-in-chief, who are invited to furnish him with all necessary information." Doullens Memorandum, Mar. 27, 1918, dep 374, MP. 8. Grigg, Lloyd George: War Leader, 453. 9. Ready,...