The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-03-07

munster OF eOuC8LlOO.
Only one gift, the presidency OF the
French republic, was denied him by
his fellow parliamentarians.
Defeat Hits Europe
Coming on top of the endorsement
Of BRAND policies his defeat for the
presidency hit Europe with dramatic
force. Germany wondered II France
had committed herself to q cessation
of efforts for q complete Franco Ger
man rapproachement and Italy and
England, remembered uneasily their
positions as guarantors Of the Lo-
carno pact. In Poland, Rumania,
Czechoslovakia and Jugoslavia there
was stiffening of nationalistic back
bones which had begun to feel effects
of pressure from central Europe for q
revision of the peace treaties.
BRAND offered his resignation as
foreign minister, but was persuaded
to continue In office. League Of Ma
tons circles hailed this development
with relief as inSuring his continued
activity.
But subsequent developments indi-
Gated that BRAND was losing his hold
on the French Imagination.
Last July 10 Heinrich Bruening
came from Berlin on the first official
visit to Paris Of German chancellor
in 80 years. More bent than ever
his most vitriolic opponents used to
call him "the hunchbacked cat"-with
one foot dragging and leaning on a
cane. BRAND fairly hobbled to the
81 tn TIA
Hardly Word to Say
There were two days OF negotiations
in Paris and, the following week, =
conference Of seven powers in Lon
don. But through all Of them BRAND
had hardly a word to say. Yet two
years earlier, when the five-power
naval conference met in London, he,
although nominally subordinate to his
then premier, Tardieu, had been the
directing brains Of the French policy
Aristride Pierre Henri BRAND was
born at Nantes, Brittany, May 2e,
1862 of q Breton father and Ven
deean mother. They were Of peasant
stock but had deserted the land to
engage in retail commerce. During his
childhood they took over q little sa-
loon in the rough seaside town of st.
Nazaire, we'll known in the United
States as the first port of debarkation
of the A. E. F.
Thus it was that three sons of
tavern keepers -. BRAND, Gustav
|Stresemann and Benito Mussolini -
were the central figures in postwar
European diplomacy for consider
able period, as foreign ministers of
France, Germany and Italy.
BRAND graduated in law and start
ed political life by writing for an an
larchist newspaper. He switched to
less radical views, BECAME associated
with Jean Jaures, the Socialist leader
who was assassinated shortly after
the outbreak of the World War in
July, 1914. and espoused the cause Of
labor unions.
In 1894 he distinguished himself at
q workingmen's congress in Nantes.
persuaded the gathering to adopt his
ideas and became. recognized as a
Leader of Socialists Thereafter he
was frequent candidate for a seat in
parliament but was unsuccessful unit!
1902.
Breaks With Socialists
He broke with the Socialists in
March, 1906, when he accepted the
ministry of education and public wor-
ship in the bourgeois cabinet of Sar-
rien. BY this step he drew upon him.
self the furious invectives Of Jaures,
but he only shrugged his already
stopped shoulders and for the next Is
years continued to conSort with fellow
cabinet members of almost every shade
! 81 domestic POLITICAL belief.
! BRAND was premier for the first
time in 1909. In 1910, when a general
railway strike threatened, he called
all the workers to the colors and then
designated them to run the trains. In
parliament he limited that imperial
Germany was waiting for that par
laying strike to spring upon France
He was premier again in 1918 and
the outbreak Of the war In 1914 found
him vice president of the cabinet. In
1915 and 1916 he once more was head
of the state, organized the Verdun re-
sistance and backed the Salonika ex-
petition, despite bitter criticism.
His star dimmed at bit after the
war, and he had some trouble in re-
tanning his seat in parliament bu!
January, 1921, saw him back in power
as premier and minister Of foreign az
fairs.
M. BRAND was a bachelor and man
of wealth. Often it was reported that
lho MOS aho,,t tn marry and once
when his name was linked with that
OF q beautiful young French woman
he made this characteristic denial:
mo young woman would want Il
|marry me and I would not marry ar
lold one"