The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1921-11-11
Strong Men Of World at
Washington Conference

League of Nations Assembly at Gene
va last September and presented the
claims of India. He also represented
his country before the Committee on
Imperial Defense in London in Octo-
Der.
South Africa will be represented by
THE Big Four" of the British delega-
ton.
Naval, military and aviation adj
visers in the British delegation in
clude the senior British naval expert
Admiral Earl Beatty, Commander of
the Grand Fleet; Lord Cavan who
was in command of British army
operation in Italy the last year of
the war; Colonel Thomas G.. r. Hig-
gins, the British air marshal and Sir
Maurice Hankey, Secretary of the
Cabinet since 1919. Others in the
official personnel will include naval
and military attaches, consular and
diplomatic officers, counsellors, clerks
and stenographers.
French Delegation
Aristide BRAND, premier of France,
who heads the French delegation to
the Washington Conference on the
Limitation of Armaments, is SO years
old. He was once a socialist leader
and helped to guide the destinies of
France during the most critical peri
DDS of the great war. He was born
at Nantes, the big industrial city at
the mouth of the Loire, and has
served, respectively, as Minister of
the Interior, Minister of Justice, Min
lister of Foreign Affairs, President Of
the Allied Supreme Council, a mem
Der of the War Council and four
times as premier of France. He has
been called IAN intellectual colossus"
as well as a political dictator and
few men have welded such great in
fluence in French public life.
BRAND 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 principal that "the in
terests of the whole nation are SUI
preme and must and shall outweigh
the interests of any class, section or
body"
Rene Viviani, former premier, the
second member of the French delega-
ton, 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 Inter
national Armaments.
M. Viviani is no stranger to Amer
lea. He has visited this country on
two occasions, one in 1917 when he
came as a 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 Roosevelt's
grave.
He is SO years old and was born in
Algiers. Educated in Paris, a lawyer,
he was elected to parliament in 1893
and served for many years in that
body until ~Clemenceau appointed him
a member of his cabinet. He is
famous as an orator.
Jean Adrien Antonine Jules Jus.
serand, has represented France as
Ambassador in Washington for is
years and is the dean of the diploma
tic 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 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
embassy in London and Minister to
Denmark.
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 a number of books in.
Guiding Americans of the Past and
Present"
Albert Sarraut, French senator and
Minister of the Colonies, former Min
lister of Public Instruction, Governor
General of Indo-China and deputy fol
the Department of Aude, is 40 years
old. In the Chamber of Deputies in
1906, Mr.. Sarraut struck Deputy
Pugliesi-Contin during debate on the
Dreyfus restoration bill. A duel re
suit and Sarraut was dangerously
wounded by a 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 o.
Indo-China. When officially opening 6
native fair at Hanoi an attempt was
made to assassinate him. He was
shot and seriously wounded.
M. Sarraut, early in the present
year, drafted the plans for French ad
ministration of the Cameroons ant
Togoland in Africa. Recently he
toured French possessions in Africa
after requesting the chamber of depu
ties to appropriate $50, 600, 900 francs
for irrigation of the French Sudan.