Evening star., 1921-10-27
VOTE MAKES SURE
COMING OF BRAND
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Confidence Accorded French
Premier Regarded as Great
Political Victory.
Ry The Associated Press.

Ry The Associated Press.
PARIS, October 27.-Premier Briant
today was making final preparations
TO leave Saturday for America, where
he will attend the conference on linn.
itation of armaments and far eastern
question. He will appear in Washing.
ton as the spokesman Of the French
people and parliament, armed with 9
, mandate given him in the chamber Of
deputies last night. The vote of con.
fidence accorded the premier was con-
sidered a great political victory. the
final ballot cast in the house being
3S1 to 1S6.
After days of debate, which often
was most bitter in character, NJ
BRAND took the floor late yesterday
afternoon to answer his critics and
demand that his policies be vindicated
HIS answer to Andre Tardieu and NJ
Herriot. radical leader. was concili-
atory in tone, but was firm in the de-
Tense Of the policies followed by
France in the past and proposed by
the present ministry for the future.
Before the premier's onslaught. the
opposition lost ground rapidly. and
what seemed to be potential defeat
yesterday morning was changed to 4
triumph.
Statements made by NJ. Tardieu. in
the chamber on Tuesday. were vari-
ously interpreted, and some of the
versions sent out of Paris were said
10 have placed construction upon
his address which would seem to have
placed NJ. Tardieu as favoring French
support of Japan against the United
States.
Declared Racial Problem.
". Tardieu asserted the future was
fun of peril, and that the allied
towers might at some time become
confronted by combination of ma
i:unS extending from the Rhine to
1aany, bolshevik Russia and China
,EISht be aligned against members OF
thc entente at some time in the future.
1Cr this reason he advocated the
s"ading of a strong French delegation
T. Washington.
". Tardieu, "is not only technical
problem; 1t is also a racial problem
which may create. local miSunder-
Standings similar to those from which
rational conflicts often have resulted.
1t is a problem Of the races, which
William Of Germany formerly tried to
exploit against us at the time when
Theophile Delcasse. former premier
and foreign minister, was seeking
alliances in Europe.
we are all the more Obliged TO
have an opinion on this problem Of
races, since Great Britain in the
Anglo-Japanese alliance. on one hand,
and France in the Franco-Japanese
accord of 1907. on the other hand.
have taken positions regarding IT..
We are also obliged to have an opin-
ion on II because of the fact that II
one considers 1t with little perspi-
cacity one sees possible dangers of
tomorrow-the great and redoubtable
dangers that may one day menace.
not only ourselves. but our allies.
This danger consists of coalition
extending from the Rhine to the Pa
cif1c, and bringing into association
the still unrepentant Germany. the
bolsheviki dictatorship and Chinese
anarchy.
Japan Favored.
II say. in the presence Of this pos
sible risk. in the presence of the sit
uation of. Japan, which has been q
loyal ally; In the presence Of diflcul.
ties that may put in opposition to
each other Japan and the United
States. to which goes out the eternal
gratitude of our hearts, there is urg-
ent necessity that the French gov
ernment have with our allies we'll
thought-out policy on this question.
II should be a policy that would per-
init US TO count upon Japan, in ac-
cord with our allies and associates,
TO meet the eventual danger"