The Washington herald., 1921-11-17
FRANCE TO HAVE
HER SAY AT NEXT
PUBLIC SESSION
Four Viewpoints Will Be
Expressed in Arms
Farley.
ny WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE.


The next public session of the
arms parley will be held to hear
the French premier sound a clarion
note about the need of France, for
large standing army. NJ BRAND
Is what In the political conventions
We call q keynoter. He is an orator
even as Brutus The chief matter of
indecision about the next open ses-
sion of the conference is the date
when NJ BRAND will have his clarion
note ready to sound.
When he Is tuned up tho confer
ence will open again. and II must be
sometime before next Wednesday,
for after Wednesday is the Thanks
giving recess, and before 1t recon-
venes NJ. BRAND will have to start
for home.
Four Viewpoints In Farley.
There are really only four cardinal
viewpoints in this conference: The
American, which is that of a con-
solidated compact country on one
continent and dominating 1t with its
nag. Then there is the viewpoint
OF Great Britain, which Is that of a
widely-scattered country built on
the spider-web plan, with one flag
standing over many scattered peo-
Pies. There is a third viewpoint.
the Japanese-that of a dynamic
people forced by their growing
btrthrate into other quarters than
their own. And, finally. we have the
French viewpoint. which is essen
TALLY the European viewpoint. that
OF small country surrounded by in
herited enemies whose economic
need keeps ancient grudges warm.
Each to state His Cause.
1t Is the task Of merging these
viewpoints into a common under
standing that the conference is
going with such complacent enthu-
siasm- The same divergence made
the mess in Paris. But the world
did not understand why the mess
was Inevitable, because all the Paris
proceedings were secret. This con-
ference will let every party in the
controversy spread his cause before
the world. Hence the BRAND
speech.
1t VIII be q great speech, one that
will greatly move the conference
For NJ BRAND. in the conference,
comes as an orator. He will depend
not SO much on the logic of his posi-
ton as upon the passion of his peo-
pie for Justice from their friends
Clemenceau would not do in this
crisis.
Truth Rather Than Facts.
The French delegation contains
many keen fnanciers who could
prove many things with figures.
But the world Is stuffed full of
proofs of things. 1t knows too
much already, and most of what II
knows is not SO What the world
needs from the French standpoint is
to believe something passionately
without much regard for the facts
1t is the truth rather than the as
sembled facts that France desires
to put into the hearts Of humanit
So BRAND will sound the clarion
note.
BRAND looks the rabble rouser
He Is stocky, weighs about 200
pounds, his hair has mane-like pos
sibilities- 1t may be shaken with
emotion. Thus NJ. BRAND can do
what neither Hughes nor Balfour
nor Baron Kato could achieve with
cut a wig. BRAND has loose fea-
lures and a large mouth. and eyes
full of smouldering fires. He Is
gray, but II is not the gray that
whitens- 1t is the first frost of
winter.
Waves Both Hands.
He avoids the statesman's pose.
wears a slouchy sack coat. slouchy
wrinkled trousers that might have
been slept in. He wears a sloucny
wide high collar. and a tie that
might have been tied in the dark. He
stands at the beginning of a speech
with one hand in his baggy coat
pocket, occasionally taking his
hand out to prop him as he leans
like a great lion with its forepaws
upon the desk. Under full steam
his hands begin to wave - both
hands His head begins to wag,
and his hair to plume and wave.
The heavy resonant voice begins to
glow. and the eyes to shine like
flames through a wall. He has the
oratorical ocabulary, full of meta
phors, figures. strophes. His body
which seems muscle-bound in re-
pose, limbers and becomes part of
the consuming inner fire.
Would Be Great Lawyer.
Up and up and up his cadences
rise, and then drop gently for a
further upward flight to a climax.
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