Marshal Foch and M. Clemenceau, Signor Orlando and Baron Sonnino,
arrived in London last Sunday to attend an Allied Con- ference, and had a wonderful reception from the dense crowds that assembled in the streets. At the French Embassy on Monday night M. Clemenceau pronounced a glowing eulogy on the Marshal. After the enemy's offensive in March, Marshal Foch told the Allies that he would fight all the time, before Amiens, in Amiens, or behind Amiens, and he kept his word. The Marshal himself summed up his great campaign in a few striking sentences. His first attacks were designed to restore the main lines of communi- cation. Then came the British attack at Arras. " Seeing that all this was not going badly, we extended the offensive, and we finished by delivering battle on a front of two hundred and fifty miles." The enemy's position daily became very rapidly worse, for "victory is an inclined plane." The Allied offensive was about to increase in intensity when the enemy asked for an armistice. Marshal Foch concluded his account with the words " Then—well ! " an eloquent aposiopesis which expressed what would have happened to Germany if the fighting had continued.
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