Evening star., 1932-03-13
ALL FRANCE BOWS
AT BRANDS GRAVE
Half Million Line Streets as
"Prince of Orators" Cor
tege Passes.
ny the Associated Press.

By the Associated PreSS.
PARIS, March 12-The world ane
his homeland gave final honors TO-DAY
to Aristide BRAND. Half a million per-
sons lined the streets of Paris as hi.
body was borne from the foreign office
over which he presided so many years
TO Passy Cemetery
Because BRAND was the apostle oi
peace" he was accorded a peace-lover's
funeral. Instead of the usual gun car.
riage, an ordinary horse-drawn coach
bore him to his grave, and the part
played by the military arm of the ma.
ton was cut to the minimum.
In q funeral Grafton at the for
etgn office, Premier Andre Tardieu
called BRAND the prince of orators
At his funeral he received the last ap-
plause Of his people.
Throng Stands Bareheaded.
The half-million, massed the length
OF the majestic Champs Elysees, stooo
bareheaded and watched the hearse &c
slowly by. At the end of the cortege 8
delegation of war veterans displayed q
placard on which was inscribed Brands
famous utterance welcoming Germany
into the League of Nations: Away with
cannon and guns!"
That phase caught the imagination
Of the throng.
At first timoruuSly, and then whole
heartedly, men, women and children
clapped their hands. 1t was to the
sound Of that spontaneously popular
approval Of his striving for peace that
he passed from the Paris stage as slowly
and majestically as he used to descend
from the rostrum of the Chamber of
Deputies or the League of Nations As
sembly after one Of his orAtorical
triumphs.
For comparable popular homage to a
civilian Paris must bark back to Wood
row Wilson'S triumphal entry in De-
cember, 1918.
Although the army, in brief but i'm
preSsive march past his coffin at the
foreign Office, honored the premier who
defended Verdun and who organized the
Salonika expedition, 1t was the common
people who formed the procession that
followed BRAND to the grave.
The Finest Flower"
His funeral day was marked by an
other signal step toward the peace for
which he strove. Just before the begin
ming OF the ceremony, Premier Tardieu,
his successor as foreign minister. an
nounced that he and Sir John Simon,
British foreign secretary, had reached a
working agreement by which France
and Great Britain will cooperate to
soften the political rivalries of Europe
and to speed the continents economic
revival.
THAT is the finest flower that could
be laid upon his tomb" said one of M
Brands intimates.
The funeral ceremony was held in
the foreign Office, and it was attended
by President Doumer and all high gov
tfves of almost 60 nations.
When the presidential party, escorted
by Republican Guards In full uniforms
and with drawn sabers, arrived In the
foreign Office the tribunes already were
filled with official guests. Judges of the
high courts were in their red robes and
diplomats in full dress with decorations.
Edge Among Mourners.
Buglers sounded cal, and then the
"Marseillaise" was p1ayed-and thou
sands OF people, from Paris and from
al! France, massed along the Quai
oOrsay, uncovered at the sound of the
anthem.
Among the noted mourners present
were Ambassador Walter z. Edge. rem
resenting President Hoover; Lord TYR
rel, representing King George; Naotake
Sato, representing the Emperor of ia
pan; Sir John Simon, representing the
League Of Nations; Malcolm Mac
Donald, representing his father. Prime
Minister Ramsay Macdonald, and Am
bessadr Leopold Won Hoesch Of Ger
many.