Evening star., 1921-10-28
BRAND SUPPORTED
BY FRENCH SENATE
Explains Why He Must Come
to U. S. and Is Given Vote
of Confidence, 3O1 to 9.
BY the AssOcia ted Press.

by the AssOcia ted Press.
PARIS. October 81. The senate
gave Premier BRAND a vote of conf
dence today, 301 to 9. The premier
repeated in the senate the declara-
tions he made yesterday in the cham
Der of deputies. During the course
of his remarks he said:
Our American friends have invited
the whole world to confer with them
on the difficult situation in the in
terest of world peace. / have thought
that 1t was not an excessive tribute
oil gratitude on the part of France
that the premier himself should so to
! Washington and express thanks to
the American people.
France Urged to Help.
Questions of first Importance will
be discussed at Washington, and
France will be called upon to play
la useful role, and play it among
friends. Our presence may dissipate
many clouds. The voyage of the head
OF the French government will not be
useless: advantages will be derived
| from this that will more than COM
pensate for the Inconvenience of leav-
ing Europe in the present state of
affairs.
France is going to Washington in
the interest of the worlds peace and
Will renew there her efforts to MAIN
tam peace in Europe. Difficult prob
! lens viii be examined. but no am
bush may be feared at Washington
no discussion will be sprung upon
us without warning.
The Pacific question once settled.
disarmament will come up. / cannot
| forget for one moment that | am
face to face with grave situation.
| fraternity which We all wish we
must consider the facts.
France Must Explain Position.
We shall have to explain to our
American friends the necessity of our
security: that. desirous as we are
TO reduce armanentS and tighten the
! burdens of the nations. we must not
only safeguard our r-own existence.
| but defend certain traditions of right
and Justice to which the fate of the
whole human race is bound. 1t is
not our liberty alone. but the liberty
| of the world We fought for in the
| late war.
Il shall ask our American friends,
Where is the nation, which. victori-
Gus after so much suffering. would
| have shown the moderation of
France:
France did not insist upon her
strategic national frontier: she. had
confidence in the guarantees offered
/ by her allies. And today she has
| neither Our friends will admit that
the hand which had taken our hand
has not been withdrawn, but that the
grip has been loosened.
He Must Come in Person.
This is why.I must go personally
and tell the Americans. The purpose
of my voyage to Washington is two
fold-first. to bring to the United
States an eternal tribute of our graft
tude, and. second. to show the Ameri-
can people the real France. a France
of suffering, but also of confidence
! and peace. and to prove to America
| that it is necessary for us to retain
| what constitutes our safeguard and
security. and that SO long as it has
not been demonstrated to us that
, such safeguard has ceased to be in
dispensable it is our duty to main
! tain it intact"
| The order of the day. on which the
vote of confidence was adopted
! reads:
| The senate. on the eve of the pre-
mier's departure for the Washington
conference. affirms Its confidence in
the government and relies upon it to
defend at Washington the rights, in
| terests and security of France. that
the principles of peace. justice and
liberty, which are those Of the re-
lpublic, may triumph" l