Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-27
LAVAL AND BRAND
VISIT TO GERMANY
ST|RS PEACE HOPES
Cabinet Conferees Expected
to Lay Foundation for
Cooperation.
ECONOMIC COMMISSION
SEEN LIKELY RESULT
First Step May Be Union of Indus
trial and Financial Leaders
of Both Countries.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BERLIN, September 26.-The hopes
and anxieties of millions of peace-lov-
ing Germans conferred tonight on the
blue train that is bringing Foreign Min
lister BRAND and Premier Laval of
France on a friendly mission to Berlin.
1t is the first official journey of the
kind by members of the French cab
met in more than half century.
The very fact that Berlin has not
seen such a visit since the days of Bis
marck has added immensely to its sig
nifcahce. Wide sections of the public,
however, as well as the Bruening gov
eminent, are keenly aware this is no
basis for expecting the sudden removal
of all stones in the path Of Franco
German understanding, even though
the shaken nerves of Europe cry loudly
for definite action to restore confidence
The consciousness of this need OF q
definite result, even though modest, has
led government spokesman as well as
the pro-government press to restrain
tendencies toward overoptinism with
almost the same zeal police are display
ing to protect the French visitors from
any unfriendly incidents"
Cooperation Sought.
It has been stressed on all occasions
and in all ways that the tangible re-
suit to be hoped for is a friendly sur
vey of the economic terrain over which
highways of mutual interest can be
built, leading stage by stage to an en-
during and thorotghgotng cooperation
f1efxx,ao,a ErroTaTa aud CarTaaf1V
A step in this direction is likely to
be the creation Of an economic COM
mission including government repre-
sentatives of industrial and financial
leaders of both countries.
Mutual recognition that the immedi-
ate results to be expected viii be limited
TO the economic sphere does not mean
that Chancellor Bruening. Foreign Min
lister Curtius, M Laval and NJ. BRAND
viii not discuss political problems.
In the words of the new French AM
bassador, Andrew Francois-P oncet. the
prime ministers as well as the foreign
ministers will have opportunities TO
speak man to man without witnesses"
although officially such touchy political
questions as reparationS and a Locarno
Of the East viii be avoided.
The Briand-Laval delegation viii be
housed in the Hotel Adlon, a few yards
from the tIencn embassy ana SIlOE .
walk from the foreign office and the
presidential palace. The state chamber
assigned to M. BRAND was occupied re-
Gently by Charlie Chaplin.
Direct telephone and telegraph wires
to Paris have been installed and full
floor has been reserved for the delega-
ton.
Full Program Planned.
The program calls for luncheon Sun
day with DR.. Curtius. dinner Sunday
evening with Herr Bruening, an audi
ence with President Paul yon linden
burg Monday, a function at the French
embassy Monday night and departure
for Paris Tuesday.
The last previous official French visi.
was the famous Berlin Congress of 1878,
when the powers decided pressing ques-
tons involving Turkey and the Balkans
The French delegation then was one
of the least important. Frances foreign
minister, William Henry Waddington-
who was British by birth-was so far
from being the BRAND of his day that
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