Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-05-26
BRAND SPEAKS
OF FRANCO-AMER-
ICAN RELATIONS
~ STEPHANE LAUZANNE
Editor Of "Le Matln"
sprtAi Foreign Correspondence. Of
Evcry Evenina ant tho u. 8. FcS~
ture Bcrvice. Inc. n. II.
CopyriKht. 1921.

Paris. May 4.--Only few hours In
tervened the arrival of Mr.. Rene vivi-
AMI, returning from New York, from
the departure of Prime Minister BriAnd,
leaving for London. And Mr.. Hrhnd
spent these few hours In conferences with
Mr.. Rene vlviani this shows the great
importance. in the days we are passing
through. which the governmcnt OF the
French Republic attaches TO all that
comes from America.
Prime Minister BRAND also received
me for some length of time and II goes
without saying that he spoke oxciu-
aively about America. His opinion re-
gardins all things about America is ex-
tremeiy simple:
II can not" saidhe, "conceive any
other policy for a French Minister.
whosoever he be, than to maintain the
closest. the most trusting and anee-
tionate relations with the great sister
Republic. / consider as national
calamity any shadow which would come
between America and Trance. And |
deem II national happiness all that
unites and brings nearer to each other
the two countries. The Franco-Amer-
lean friendship. is dogma for me. sn
unalterable, intangible and sacred
thing -
l told the Prime Minister that this
feeling. in my opinion. was rcciprocatcd
| by nearly all the Americans unan-
imously; but that 1t was necessary
TO express this feeling in it's reality,
And the reality was that Mr.. Viviani
ind | found in Washington certain
feeling of surprise by tho manner In
which the American interests have sorne-
timer been treated. after the Pence. and
| in particular In the Pacific and In the
matter of cables and petrol.
America thinks | said. that she
helped to win the war and that, under
| these circumstances she has a right
| to see that her interests are not hurt In
| peace by those with whom she has as
sociated ."
| Mr.. BRAND did not permit me to An
| ish.
/ This matter" he said. does not nj
| low one moments discussion. I do not
| think that within ten generations there
can be single F'renchman who will
have forgotten what America did in
| this war. And ] do not believe there
| is single Frenchfnan today who would
consent that America be deprived of any
right whatsoever or of any Benefit
| which victory has given to all of us
II Is possible that errors have beer
i committed In this respect: / do moi
| want to look into the past and seek e
| know which of my predecessors may
have been responsible for this: but Ii
advance / certify that the mistake hai
been an involuntary one. No Frcncf
Minister has ever conceived the ides
of harn1ing American interests in an,
| way whatsoever. The rapidity witt
which replied personally to the not
| OF the Secretary of State. Hughes, OF
the Yap question and its mandates. /
the best proof OF our desire to give i'm
mediate satisfaction to America, eael
time that she may be brought TO ex
press a claim owing 10 an incompre
hensfble error
And Mr.. BRAND further stated:
In the house of the Quay d'Orsas
2 where not a single day passes but som
representative or other of a nation G
the world enters. there is one perso
whose entrance is always most welcom