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too, lead back to Montmarte Hill to
the Cafe du CroiSSant and hundred
other sidewalk cafes known intimately
In Bohemian youth. Today M. BRAND
would be far happier there than in the
Quat d'Orsay were it not for the fact
that the Quai brings wider human con-
facts and the challenge to bridge the
Rhine as 1t never yet has been
bridged-with spirit Of understanding
There are countless incidents illus
| trative of BRAND, the student of men.
And countless bon motS elected from
beneath the scraggly Briandian mus
tache for an eager Paris to pick up
and chuckle over . all sprung from
the wisdom of understanding and a
clear vision. Such crisp truisms as this
tossed to a group of French journalists
during the debate as to whether the
new reparations committee should be
composed Of official or entirely inde-
pendent experts, as the Germans de-
| sired.
Unknown Cabinet" Brings Smiles.
There is no such thing as an indie
pendent expert" barked BRAND, know
ing full well that whatever any group of
experts did would have to be approved
by the governments concerned.
! Or his apt remark when the French,
without ministry in early November
were wondering who beside President
Doumergue would represent the govern
ment at the Unknown Poilu's tomb,
where traditionally all the ministers
gather on that day: The unknown
cabinet will pay tribute to the Unknown
Soldier" said M. BRAND, and Paris
smiled.
If you dislike being searchingly scru-
tinized.. you would not enjoy an inter-
view with the French foreign minister.
AS he talks to men and as they talk
to him he studies them closely. Men
/ tally he notes their strong points and
their weaknesses. In l5-minute con-
yersation he can weigh and evaluate
the most suave Of European statesmen
with rare accuracy. The facts they cite
to him he hears but partially, or even
ignores completely. He never ignores
the man.
There are few men who have crossed
lances Of political shrewdness with Da-
vid Lloyd George and won, but M.
BRAND has done that. There was his
noteworthy trip to London in 1920 when
| the fate of Upper Silesia hung in bal
| ance, France wanting it given to Po-
| land, Lloyd George favoring Germany.
When the then British premier saw
BRAND his decision was already made
for ceSsion to Germany, and he said so
flatly. M. BRAND appeared entirely I'M
perturbed. He began discussing other
and more trivial matters with Lloyd
George. but the keen eyes beneath the
bushy eyebrows never left the British
statesman's face. Finally they parted
| for the evening. M. BRAND failing to
make even another reference to Upper
SileSia. But when they met the follow
| ing day M. Brands plan of attack was
! fully laid. He talked Lloyd George into
yielding and got Upper Silesia out of
Germany's hands.
He Is Rowing Center"
BRAND is the rowing center of the
European foot ball lineup. He roves,
he observes. And where the opponents
line is weakest he charges. That is why
Brands speeches are almost never writ
ten in advance. Before making an i'm
portant address in the Chamber or at
affairs talks things over with his aSSo-
ciateS. In his room he muses., doubtless
pulls his generous mouStache over more
than one knotty problem; puffs count
less cigarettes. Here is a situation.
He creates it in his mind and paper is
largely unnecessary.
In fact, the written preparation for q
BRAND speech is frequently but a few
notes scrubbed on scrap paper or on
visiting cards which he sticks in various
pockets. One day while discussing the
France-Italian situation in the Cham
Der M. BRAND had tucked into his
pocket such scraps of notes filled with
statistics of the. italian army and navy.
AS he reached that moment in his adj
dress where he wished to use them
BRAND plunged his hand into one
pocket, then another. In none did he
find the notes. Without hesitation,
however, the veteran orator 1mprov1sed
sentence after sentence, still cropping for
his notes. M. BRAND was still pouring
forth sweet generalities when Peycelon
finally noted his embarrassment and
slipped another notation of the figures
into his hand.
There Is probably no statesman in
Europe as gifted as BRAND in hitting
upon the right and happy phrase at the
right moment. It is part Of his genius,
just as master cellist strikes the per
feet deep note. At the signing OF the
kellogg BRAND treaty renouncing war
In Paris last August remember well
the dynamic words with which Frances
foreign minister gripped the magma
ton of the representatives of Is nations.
Gentlemen" he said in closing, "in
a moment the awakening OF a great
hope will be signaled to the world along
the wires"
There was the lneVlLdDle DEldLioAdAi
bon mot-"the awakening OF a great
hope" After that any other speeches.
would have been wasted oratory. 1t was
both wise and fortunate that there were
none. Only few weeks later at Ge-
neya the same statesman was to supply
Europe with the keynote to the opening
reparations negotiations. THE liquida--
ton of the war" must be faced and
won, he said, and the phrase leaped
from one nations press to another.
Depth Of Meaning in Words.
Consider again the great depth OF
meaning wrapped in Brands words
spoken upon the occasion of Germanys
entrance into the League of Nations.
Opposite the French statesman sat the
delegates of the German republic, for
the first time since the war restored
into the Old Worlds family. 1.-THE time
has now come for us to speak Euro
pean." said M. BRAND, and the words
struck response in hearts as well as
intellectS.
Always behind M. Brands inspira-
tional phrases there exists this marked
sense of reality. During the early
months of negotiation of the Kellogg
pact 1t was the French statesman who
saw things as they are, who insisted on
8 treaty adaptable to Europe as it Is. I
have never heard it stated, even by M.