Report Of The Committee On Arrangements And Reception To The Chief Of Staff Of The United States Army And Officers Of The General Staff 1920 Classic Reprint

Author : Society of Colonial Wars in th Columbia
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ISBN 13 : 9781330810613
Total Pages : 22 pages
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Download or read book Report of the Committee on Arrangements and Reception to the Chief of Staff of the United States Army and Officers of the General Staff, 1920 (Classic Reprint) written by Society of Colonial Wars in th Columbia and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-06 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Report of the Committee on Arrangements and Reception to the Chief of Staff of the United States Army and Officers of the General Staff, 1920 The following report on the reception to the Chief of Staff and Officers of the General Staff held at the New Willard Hotel on the occasion of the annual meeting of the Society, Tuesday evening, December 4, 1917, is herewith respectfully submitted by the Committee on Arrangements and Reception appointed by his Excellency, Mr. J. Burr Johnson, Governor of the Society. It has been delayed, not only on account of many members of our Society being engaged in war work, but also in consequence of the few meetings that have been held since that time. Cards of invitation were sent to the Chief of Staff and each officer of the General Staff, about seventy in all, most of whom accepted. The Secretary of War was also invited to be present but could not do so on account of a previous engagement. A patriotic feature of the meeting that was held preceding the reception was the decision to send a sum to our soldiers abroad to be expended as might be seen fit. Pursuant to this action, the following resolution was unanimously adopted: "Be it resolved by the Society: "That at the meetings of the Society during the period of the war, the serving of refreshments shall be omitted and the amount usually expended thereon shall be sent to General John L. Pershing, Commander of the American Expeditionary Forces in France, to be expended by him for the benefit of American soldiers, as in his discretion he shall see fit and the Treasurer of the Society is hereby ordered and directed in compliance with this resolution to remit to General Pershing the sum of five hundred dollars from the funds of the Society." An acknowledgment from Colonel Edward Bowditch, Jr., Aide-de-Camp to General Pershing, to Frederick B. Hyde, Secretary, read as follows: "General Pershing has directed me to acknowledge the receipt of your letter enclosing check for $500, which has been placed in the fund already established, to assist cases of need as they arise. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.