Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-21

LNLEU1IERIOS VENIZELOS, who has
~ been generally ranked as one of the
abest statesmen at the conference. has un-
questionaby convincing visual fitness for
that role. The greatest man in Greek history
since her modern revival AS a nation is
graced with eyes that sparkle wildly with
resolute sincerity, and there is a tolerant
yet determined expression of reassuring wis
dom in the lines of his mouth.
There may be handsomer men than Jan
SHUTS at the peace table, but few other faces
than his are more stimulating to the i'm
agination. One has feeling that he could
don sixteenth century armor with magnif-
cent fitness and reincarnate some gloriously
heroic captain in the train of William of
Orange, battling against Spanish tyranny.
Superfcially, there is hardly the character
of the diplomatist about the face of Robert
Lansing. He suggests rather successful
banker of approved integrity. Colonel
House. however, looks precisely as he
should. There is not scintilla of loquacity
conveyed by that queer little face, and in
tensity of thinking behind that high fore
head is easily conceivable. He looks, more
over, as though he could work admirably,
as he has done on the league of nations
draft with Lord Robert Cecil Studiousness,
profundity and high thinking are paIpably
evinced by the features and expression of
the idealstic British delegate, His earnest
ness contrasts significantly with Arthur Bal
four, from whose expression one may readily
translate erudtion, accompanied by seasoned
philosophical disillusionment.
Quite the fercest face in the gallery"
is that of Charles Kramar, of Czecho -Slo-
vakia. The Serbians, too, seem somewhat
formidable, with the exception of old Nikola'
,hn hos la,o
the green table and the air of a patriarch
who might look well in the trappings of a
metropolitan of the Greek Orthodox Church
The British ''colonials'' are generally. in
character, able enough men obviously, but
not the most forcefu members of the CON
ference. Scholarliness characterzes the as
| ,pect of V. Wellington KoO and his Chinese
associates, while the quintessence of Orien-
| tai shrewdness is patent on the faces of
! Viscount Chinda and Baron Maxine, of
| Japan.
Paul Hyman, of Belgium, is graced by an
| impressive distinction of countenance, and
one somehow feels that the photograph
hardly does him justice. His associate: M
Van den Heuval, oddly recalls Joe Cannon.
| Emil Feisal and Rustem Haidar, in.their
| Arab burnouses, carry off the honors for
| pIcturesqueness, seconded by the dusky G..
| Il. ID. King, of Liberia, and Certullien Guil
baud, of Haiti. '....
| ANDREW BONAR LAW is decidedly un =
| "A impressive in appearance. 1t was, per
hang. to have been expected. The French
delegates, including the venerable Jules
Cambon and the American looking Andre
| Tardieu, all pale before the Tiger" whose
| face. however it may be interpreted. pro
| claims leadership. So, indeed, do all the
faces of the heads of the big Four. .
Power and brains are unmistakable in theil
aspects.
Surveying the gallery as whole, it i.
brains of which there is patent suggestion
in these photographs. That is the mos
salient and reassuring fact to be deducet
from this unique facial clue to history.