THE WESTERN FRONT
FOCH’S APPOINTMENT AS GENERALISSIMO DUE TO EARL HAIG (United Service.) London, April IS. Field-Marshal Haig alone was reponsible for the famous Doullens Conference, which resulted in Marshal Foch being appointed Generalissimo of the Allied Armies in France, says Brigadier-General Charteris in his book entitled “Field-Marshal Earl Haig.” Earl Haig insisted that the only way to avert disaster was to place the whole operations on the Western Front under French leadership.
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 175, 20 April 1929, Page 9
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73THE WESTERN FRONT Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 175, 20 April 1929, Page 9
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