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"I'm afraid General Petain wouldn't agree with you, Stubbs," interposed Hal. "He doesn't care what the people in the United States want. All he cares about right now is to lick the Germans." "Well, maybe you're right," Stubbs admitted, "but just the same I want you fellows to know that hunting news is not snooping." "Stubbs," said Chester, "I've got to give you credit.
The time was consumed by the words of M. Le Roux, who spoke very earnestly urging that more American correspondents be permitted to visit Verdun, and Pétain heard him patiently, but said just nothing. Once he had greeted us his face settled into that grim expression that never changed until he smiled his word of good wishes as we left.
If we don't report to General Petain to-morrow morning we're likely to be court martialed." "Oh, no, you're not," said Stubbs. "Oh, yes we are." "I say you're not." "Say," said Hal, "you talk like you knew something about it." "I do," returned Stubbs.
He had commanded at Verdun when the attack came, and without hesitation he had turned over his command to Pétain, his junior in service and rank before the war, given up the glory and become the superintendent of transport. Men spoke to you of the fine loyalty of that action with unconcealed admiration. And then out of the remoteness of Souilly there came a voice familiar to an American.
I hastened to assure him that I was only teasing him, and added that I only teased the people I admired and liked. General Petain immediately turned to the Commandant de Pulligny "Please remark that she has not yet teased me." "Probably because she fears to do it, and has too much respect for you," replied the Commandant. "Fears!
"I am loath to believe you would be mixed up in anything of this nature." "How did Mr. Stubbs happen to mention us as being implicated in this conspiracy, sir?" asked Chester. "He said he wanted to see you get home safely and not be mixed up in anything that might mean a firing squad," said General Petain, calmly. "I promised him your safe return to America for his news of the conspiracy."
I hastened to assure him that I was only teasing him, and added that I only teased the people I admired and liked. General Pétain immediately turned to the Commandant de Pulligny "Please remark that she has not yet teased me." "Probably because she fears to do it, and has too much respect for you," replied the Commandant. "Fears!
They might suppose that the French officers danced for happiness, that they danced because they were French, because they were victorious, because they were young, because they must. It was not, surely, the wild dancing of the host whose party drags a little, who calls for more champagne, more fiddles? In the centre of the city of Metz sat the Marechal Petain, and kept his eye upon Lorraine.
This legend has perished so far as Kitchener is concerned, gone with so much that England trusted and believed two years ago, but I find myself thinking now of Pétain as we all thought of Kitchener in his great day. If I were an officer I should not like to come to the defender of Verdun with the confession of failure.
It was not until August that the first was launched, and for a sphere of action Pétain reverted once more to Verdun. The victories of October and December 1916 were commonly represented as having recovered all that the Germans had won in the spring of that year; in fact they were confined to the right bank of the Meuse.
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