Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-11-28


The delegate responded with
honoriiics. and nothing else. We were
told that every nation present ap-
preciated Frances position, etc. and
the ever-courteous Mr. Balfour stated
that moral isolation for France would
be terrible indeed"
But that was not the end OF Brands
efforts He appeared before COM
mittee meeting last Wednesday morn
ing--whch was held behind closed
ooors-and plead for physical support
OF France. BRAND wanted written
guarantee that the nations represented
would come to Frances aid IL Ger
many again made an attack. That
guarantee was not forthcoming. There
were merely moro honorifics spilled
over the place. He did receive as
surance. however, and more by in
direct wording, that the matter OF
limiting land armaments would not
come up at this Conference.
BRAND had made his supreme ges-
ture to France. He could we'll say to
his countrymen, "Behold, showed
they Will not guarantee our safety.
they Mt least will not tamper with our
army. BRAND goes home. well salts
fed with himself. He did not help the
Conference make one step toward arms
limitation. He did not further the
cause OF the Conference In any man
ner. He spoke for France, and to
France, and may the devil take him
who opposes France.
He has strengthened the hands OF
the militarists In France. although he
is no miitarist. While others talked
more of international peace. he talked
OF his own people. lie was invited &c
bring his provender TO the feast and
he took II home with him.
i freely say that he was we
blanket. No disarmament for hi,
people unless all OF us offer 10 polio,
his neighborhood day and night. Ye
| want TO say that on all the figurei
who have sat at the Conference table
| admire him most, placing second tn.
Admiral Baron kato, that chain light
ming thinker and Far Eastern Talley
rand. / admire Brands mental frank
ness. That is something which NJ
other man, with the possible exception
OF Mr.. Hughes. has shown at thi
Conference. What makes his cas-
paradoxical is that OF all men VIII
have spoken, he was the one frou
|, whom you would have expected tn
most idealism.
lie was born OF humble parentage I,
st Nazaire For years he was an ex
| tremist among the Intellectual social
, lists. lie had preached brothcrly low,
: and on more than one oCCa sion he ha
, acted It, lie had been poor. and h
: had spoken for the poor. IL idealisI
was to be voiced. surely It was {
, come from this advocate of brother
hood.
But It was not his lips which spek
those words IL was that walking r,
frigerator. Mr.. Arthur James Balfou
born 70 despise all tendencies towar
the millennium. and the Admiral Baro
Tkato-who can trace his ancestry bac
1900 years in the aristocracy {
e Japan-who have talked OF intel
national good will BRAND talked {
g and for France. II is because of thI
5 admire him so. l think that
d said frankly for his country what n
e more cautious gentlemen dare M
say for their own lands. Furthermor
r he said 1t first, and then graceful
- withdrew. His was a diplomatic tr
g umph OF the first degree. equaled n
/. even by Mr.. Hughes armament bonn
# shell. Not as spectacular. but mo
q effective from his own standpoint.
l. he could not get all that he came for
@ written guarantees of aid-he got q
= next best thing, the assurance that &
l. Conference will keep hands off Franc
It That country is now free TO don
- nant the Continent.
Is BRAND did not help the Conferent
IT He help France immeasurably. j
nJ was a supremacy selfish act. But
placed his faith not in brotherly lo'
l. but in the laws of nature, OF whi
10 self preservation is the first. Viewi
te the conference as a whole we may r
10 be able to sympathize, or approve
Is his actions. Yet we can admire {
Is audacity of the man, and above
r. that mental fnankness which is I
lie brightest jewel among the minds V
s. [ q. 3.
to Thornless roses are not known
D. diplomacy. England and Japan ha