Alphonse Joseph Georges

Alphonse Joseph Georges (French pronunciation:; 15 August 1875 – 24 April 1951) was a French army officer. He was commander in chief of the North-Eastern Front in 1939 and 1940. Opposing the plan by supreme commander Maurice Gamelin to move the best Allied forces into the Low Countries, he was overruled. Georges tried to allow as much initiative to his subordinates as possible to improve operational flexibility.