The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-11-07
FRANCE WILL DISARIM If GUARANTEED HER SECURITY
BRAND LANDS In new YORK AND
DELIVERS A MESSAGE TO NATION
OUTLINING POLICY AT CONFERENCE
bers of the French delegation will be
of interest at this time:
Aristide BRAND

Premier OF France, who heads the
| French delegation to the Washington
| Conference on the Limitation of Ar
| maments. is 50 years old He was
once a socialist leader and helped to
! guide the destinies of France during
he most critical periods OF the great
| war. He was born at Nantes, the big
| Industrial city at the mouth of the
| Loire, and has served respectively,
rs minister of the Interior minister
Of justice, minister OF foreign affairs
president of the Allied Supreme
Council. a member of the war coun-
I'll and four times as premier of
France. He has been called AN in
-ellectual colossus as we'll as a po-
itical dictator and few men have
welded such great influence in
French public life.
BRAND first became a world figure
in the Chamber Of Deputies as the
author of the law providing for sep
aration of church and state in 1906
and for his victory over syndicalism
when by placing the railroads under
military law, he called all the work
ers 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 outweigh the in
terests of any class, section or body"
Rene ViVian
Former premier, the second mem
Der of the French delegation, was al
so 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 International
ArmanentS.
Mr.. Viviani is no stranger to Amer
lea. He has visited this country on
two occasions, once in 1917 when he
came as member of the French 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 RooseYelt's
grave.
He is SO years old and was born
in Algiers. Educated in Paris, a law
yer. he was elected to parliament in
1898 and served for many years in
that body until Clemenceau appointed
him member of his cabinet. He is
famous dS dH orator.
Jean Adrien Antoine Jules Jusserand
Has represented France as ambas-
sador in Washington for Is years and
is the dean of the diplomatic corps.
He is &C years old and has been in
public life more than As years. He
was President Wilson's guest on the
liner George Washington when Mr..
Wilson sailed for the Paris peace con
ference. His wife is an American;
her maiden name was Elsie Richards.
Ambassador JuSserand entered the
French foreign Office in 1876 He has
been counsellor to the French en-
bassy in London and minister to Den
mark
He is a grand officer of the Legion
of Honor and a member of several
British and American philosophical,
historical and literary bodies. He
has written number of books includ-
ing Americans of the Past and Pres
ent."
Albert Saurraut
French senator and minister for the
colonies, former minister of public
instruction, governor general of Indo-
China and deputy for the department
of Aude, is 40 years old. In the
chamber of deputies in 1906, Mr..
Sarraut struck Deputy Pugliesi-Con
ii during debate on the Dreyful res
toration bill A duel resulted and
Saurraut was dangerously wounded
by sword thrust in the right breast
He served in the French army in
the world war as a second lieutenant
and later he was made pre-consul of
Indo-China When officially opening
made to assassinate him. He was
shot and seriously wounded.
M. Saurraut, early in the present
year, drafted the plans for French ad-
ministration of the Cameroons and
Togoland in Africa. Recently he
toured French possessions in Africa
after requesting the chamber of dep
uties to appropriate 250,000,000
francs for irrigation of the French SUI
dan.
Staff Personnel
The staff personnel of the French
delegation includes:
Chief military adviser, Marshal
Ferdinand Foch; chief naval adviser,
Vice Admiral Grasset, head of the
French naval general staff; general
secretary to the foreign office, Gen
eral Philippe Berthelot; Maurice Ca
senave, director general of French in
terests in the United States; Major
General Baut, chief of staff of the
/, French army; Count Charles de
Chambrun, former counsellor of the
French embassy in Washington; M.
! Leger, for the past four years first
secretary of legation and charge d. af-
faires at Peking, China; General Pier
re-Henri Desticker, chief of staff and
aid to Marshal Foch; Admiral De
bon; M. Fromageot; M. Kammerer;
M. Cheysson; M. Duchesne; M. Gi-
m rflaali -Cantains pEInnifal and IL