Weekly journal-miner., 1921-11-09
FRENCH ENVOYS
 ALL. READY FOR
 ARMS CONGRESS
Associated Press Night wire)

WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 7.-
 The French delegation to. the Wash ington conference was completed to- night with the arrival of Premier
 Briand at the head of several dele gates. He, with the other members of the party were greeted by off cials representing the American gov ernment and cheered by thousands of spectators.
 Secretary Hughes was the first to grasp the hand of tFe premier and to extend the governments welcome. General Pershing, as the representa- tive of the army, also was present and was the first to greet General Baut, chief of staff of the French army and acting military advisor to the delegates.
 Other officials from the state de- partment and the army met the visi- tors in New York and accompanied them on the special train here. i Other members of the delegation to arrive tonight included Rene Viviani, deputy and former premier of France, and Albert Saraut, senator and minister of colonies, both of whom are delegates.
 Aristide Briand, premier of France, Iwho heads the French delegation to the Washington conference on the limitation of ornaments, is 59 years | old. He was once a socialist leader and helped to guide the destinies of 1 France during the most critical per iods of the great war He was born | at Nantes, the big Iindustrial city at lthe mouth of the Loire, and has served, respectively, as minister of the interior, minister of justice, min ister of foreign affairs, president of 1 the allied supreme council, a member of the war council and four times as premier of France. He has been called 'an intellectual colossus" as well as a political dictator and few men have wielded such great influ- cnce ill French public life.
 Briand first became a world figure in the chamber of deputies as the au- thor of the law providing for separa- ton of church and state in 1906 and for his victory over syndicalism when by placing the railroads under mill tary law, he called all the workers to the colors and broke the great strike of 1910. He accepted and en- forced the principle that "the inter ests of the whole nation are supreme and must and shall outweight the in- terests of any class, section or body"
 Rene Viviani, former premier, the second member of the French delega- tion, was also at one time a socialist leader. He has served as cabinet minister in several portfolios. He is at present chairman of the League of Nations commission to limit interna- tional armaments.
 M. Viviani is no stranger to America. He has visited this country on two occasions, once in 1917 when he came as a member of the French i war mission with General Joffre and again in the spring of 1921 when he was voted the freedom of New York | city and visited Colonel Roosevelt's l grave.
 He is 59 years old and was born in Algiers. Educated in Paris, lawyer, he was elected to parliament in 1893 and served for many years in that body until Clemenceau appointed him member of his cabinet. He is la mcus as all orator. | Jean Adrien Antonine Jules Jus serand has represented France as Ambassador in Washington for IS years and is the dean of the diplo- matic corps. He is 66 years old and | has been in public life more than 45 years. He was President Wilson's l guest on the liner George Washing | ton when Mir Wilson sailed for the | Paris peace conference. His wife is an Americans; her maiden name was Elsie Richards.
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