Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-08-21
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AI3IS, AUG IU.-Community OF
~ ideals and unity ;of.Sinterestare

\ ARTS. Aug 10.-community Of
- ideals and unity Of interesta are
the watchwords OF a project
Which has been set on foot by
a number of distinguished French
men, foremost among them being
NJ. Ga briel Hanotaux ex-minister Of
foreign affairs. with q view to bring
ing into closer contact the two great
republics of the old and new worlds
France and America.
The idea is SO simple, the purpose
50 excellent and the advantages so
obvious, that ones first impression is
! one of establishment that nearly a
century and ID half should have been
allowed to elapse before the matter
was taken in hand. Possibly the
reason is to be sought in the very
sympa thy which has at all times ex-
listed between the descendants of
Lafayette and Washington and which
appeared Ito render any attempt to
tightens,the bonds of friendship quite
unnecessarily. But the life of nations
nowadays lis so complex the struggle
for existence so keen, that the best
Of friends may drift apart, especially
when the great ocean lies between
them mo effort, therefore, should be
spared TO keep alive the hereditary
good feeling and to further a constant
interchangeso friendly relations in
every phase and aspect of national
life. s ,.sl5
lEMINENTLY FITTED. : 8 4. I
No Frenchman, perhaps, is bet
ter fitted sto be the rtsleaderi
OF such "a movement than;
the eminent statesman and scholar,
whose name figures as president, OF
the provisional committee of, France;
America, NJ. Hanotaux. He is a mem
Der ofi5the French academy. and is
one Of the&relatively few Frenchmenl
who may be said to possess "a profound
knowledge and comprehensive grasp
OF International politics. For i the
last half dozen years or so he has
@held aloff from parliamentary life;
nut his utterances in the press on for
eign policy5 never fail to command
widespread attention. With him on
Inc provisional committee are more
+ Than a score OF representatives of the
economic, social, literary and artistic
me Of France Paul Adam, for LETT
ters: Francois FIameng and Leon
Lhermitte for art; Andre Tardieu, of
the Temps; jules Huret. of the Fig.
aro fort press; Henri Regnier;
iaphaei Georges Levy. who is bank
er and professor at the school OF
Political SCIENCE Andre Lebon, ex-:
minister of commerce and president
OF the Messageries Maritimes com.
panY;; M. Guiliain. ex-minister and
President of the Morocco committees,
+ Charles Roux. president of the Com
pagnie Transatlantiuue; NJ. Heurteau.
director of the Orleans Railway Co...
ules Sjegfried, deputy and cx-minis-5
ter; Viscount de Breteuil treasurer.
Iapr1ei3e Louis .JaraS Auditor OF
the Council OF State, who is
the general secretary: NJ. Sem.
art. president of the French
Asia committee; Annatole Leroy Beau
lieu, who is the director4of the school
Of Political Science and NJ. de Verneuil,
president of the syndical chamber OF
the stockholders of Paris. In fact
every name on the provisional commit
tee is that of a man entitled to be con-
sidered q representative Frenchman.
he names of the eminent Americans
2 VINO WI take their place beside the
French members on the committee are
not yet available, and NJ. Jaray tells
me that the final committee will not be
sormed until the autumn.
~. Hanotaux describes the objects