demonstration of his principles--to the saving of mankind.

Every good father in France may see himself in Foch--and especially
every father who gave his son for France and her ideals.

Every man whose work in life calls him to lead other men, in peace or
in war, has supreme need of Foch; because Foch embodies those
principles of leadership to which men are now responsive, those ideals
toward which they are striving. Particularly as a coordinator is Foch
great--and potent for the future. There is, probably, no other kind of
service so important to the world's welfare, now, as that of bringing
men together; making them see that fundamentally they are all, if they
are right-minded, fighting for the same thing; and that in union there
is strength.

As a scholar, Foch is brilliant besides being profound. As a man, he
is simple--and France admires simplicity; he is elegant--and France
loves the elegance that is the expression of fine thinking, fine
feeling; he is modest of his own attainments, and proud of France's
glory.

For nearly every great commander, victory in arms has led to power in
the state.

Foch is a statesman as preeminently as he is a warrior. His counsel
was as weighty in the peace settlement as his strategy was in winning
the war.

But one cannot conceive him using his prestige, military or diplomatic,
to increase his personal power.

He has served God and man; he has served his country and his conviction
of right. He is content therewith--just as he hopes millions of men
are content who have done the same according to their best ability.

"I approach the twilight of my life," he wrote not long ago, "with the
consciousness of a good servant who will rest in the peace of his Lord.
Faith in eternal life, in a good and merciful God, has sustained me in
the hardest hours. Prayer has illumined my soul."

In presenting to Foch the baton of a Marshal of France, President
Poincare recalled certain definitions he had often heard Foch
reiterate: "War is the department of moral force; battle, the struggle
between two wills; victory, the moral superiority of the conqueror, the
moral depression of the conquered."

"This moral superiority," said the President of the French Republic to
the new Marshal of France, "you have tended like a sacred flame."

Always, the tone of tribute to Foch is one of veneration for the
greatness of his soul and his preeminent ability to represent and to
lead his people.