Editing Maxime Weygand (section)

==== Poland ====
[[File:Misja aliancka w Polsce (1920).jpg|thumb|right|Weygand, first row second from right, standing next to British [[Cabinet Secretary (United Kingdom)|Cabinet Secretary]] [[Maurice Hankey, 1st Baron Hankey|Marice Hankey]], serving as part of the [[Interallied Mission to Poland]]. August 1920.]]
[[File:Gare de l'Est - arrivée du général Weygand au retour de Pologne.jpg|thumb|Weygand at [[Gare de l'Est]] on his return from Poland in August 1920]]

During the [[Polish–Soviet War]], Weygand was a member of the [[Interallied Mission to Poland]] of July and August 1920, supporting the infant [[Second Polish Republic]] against the [[Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic]]. (He had not been on the 1919 [[French Military Mission to Poland]] headed by General [[Paul Prosper Henrys]].) The Interallied Mission, which also included French diplomat [[Jean Jules Jusserand]] and the British diplomat Lord [[Edgar Vincent D'Abernon]], achieved little: its report was submitted after the [[Polish Armed Forces (Second Polish Republic)|Polish Armed Forces]] had won the crucial [[Battle of Warsaw (1920)|Battle of Warsaw]]. Nonetheless, the presence of the Allied missions in Poland gave rise to a myth that the timely arrival of Allied forces saved Poland.{{sfn|Davies|2003|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=o3FWGRxVlSYC&pg=PA222 222]}}

Weygand travelled to [[Warsaw]] expecting to assume command of the [[Polish Armed Forces (Second Polish Republic)|Polish army]], yet those expectations were quickly dashed. He had no good reply for [[Józef Piłsudski]], who on 24 July during their first meeting asked "How many divisions do you bring?" Weygand had none to offer. From 27 July Weygand was an adviser to the Polish Chief of Staff, [[Tadeusz Rozwadowski]]. It was a difficult position; most Polish officers regarded him as an interloper, and spoke only Polish, which he did not understand. At the end of July he proposed that the Poles hold the length of the [[Bug River]]; a week later he proposed a purely defensive posture along the [[Vistula]] river; both plans were rejected. One of his few lasting contributions was to insist on replacing the existing system of spoken orders by written documents; he also provided advice on logistics and construction of modern entrenchments.{{sfn|Clayton|2015|p=49}} [[Norman Davies]] writes: "on the whole he was quite out of his element, a man trained to give orders yet placed among people without the inclination to obey, a proponent of defence in the company of enthusiasts for the attack".{{sfn|Davies|2003|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=o3FWGRxVlSYC&pg=PA222 222]}} During another meeting with Piłsudski on 18 August, Weygand became offended and threatened to leave, depressed by his failure and dismayed by Poland's disregard for the Allied powers.

At the station at Warsaw on 25 August he was consoled by the award of the [[Virtuti Militari]], 2nd class; at Paris on the 28th he was cheered by crowds lining the platform of the [[Gare de l'Est]], kissed on both cheeks by the premier, [[Alexandre Millerand]].{{sfn|Davies|2003|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=o3FWGRxVlSYC&pg=PA222 222]}} Promoted to ''général corps d'armée'' and advanced to ''Commandeur'' in the [[Legion of Honour]],{{sfn|Clayton|2015|p=50}} Weygand could not understand what had happened and admitted in his memoirs what he said to a French journalist already on 21 August 1920: "the victory was Polish, the plan was Polish, the army was Polish".<ref name="Drozdowski">{{cite news |title = Opinia gen. Weyganda o zwycięstwie pod Warszawą | last = Genty | newspaper = [[Kurier Warszawski]] | location = Warsaw | id = nr 232 | date = 22 August 1920 | page = 3 |trans-title=Gen. Weygand's view on the victory at Warsaw |language=pl}}, as cited in: {{cite book | editor = Marian Marek Drozdowski | others = Hanna Eychhorn-Szwankowska, Jerzy Wiechowski | title = Zwycięstwo 1920 |trans-title=Victory 1920 | year = 1990 | publisher = Editions Dembinski | isbn = 2-87665-010-X | oclc = 24085711 | page = 151 |language=pl}}, also reprinted in: {{cite news |title=Generał Weygand o zwycięstwie |url=http://www.wbc.poznan.pl/dlibra/plain-content?id=162606 |newspaper=Gazeta Polowa |date=28 August 1920 |access-date=27 September 2011}}</ref> As Norman Davies notes: "He was the first uncomprehending victim, as well as the chief beneficiary, of a legend already in circulation that he, Weygand, was the victor of Warsaw. This legend persisted for more than forty years even in academic circles".{{sfn|Davies|2003|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=o3FWGRxVlSYC&pg=PA222 222]}}