The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-07
BRAND Dead;
France Loses
Great Leader
Veteran Apostle of World
Peace Is Victim of
Heart Disease.
HEALTH LONG CRITICAL
Paris Is Shocked by Pass
ing of WeII-Loved .
War Statesman.
BY RALPH HEINZEN
United Press STAFF Correspondent

PARIS, March 7.-Aristide
BRAND, veteran apostle of
world peace, and one of the
most famous surviving states
men of the World war and
postwar periods, died at his
home at 1:21 p. m. today of
heart disease.
News of his passing at his resi-
dence spread swiftly through the
capital and shocked the city.
Although his health had been at
a critical state for months, he
fought off the malady with charac-
teristic vigor, and frequently as
sured his friends he would be back
at active work soon. His SEVENTEEN
birthday would have been three
weeks from today.
BRAND had been recuperating at
his country home at Cocherel. He
came to Paris last week, appar
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1t was deemed wise for him to
leave Cocherel because of the cold
weather, and the necessity of keep
ing closer contact with specialists
who had been giving him digitalis
treatments for his heart.
DisObeyed His Doctors
His condition was complicated re-
Gently by signs of uremia.
Since his return to Paris, BRAND,
stubbornly insisting on re-entering
public affairs, disobeyed his doctors
and saw Premier Andre Tardieu and
other politicians.
He did so despite definite in
structions that he must take a COM
plete rest at the risk of his life.
BRAND LIST consciousness this
morning and did not regain it. At
his bedside when he died were DR..
Emile Emery, his physician and his
niece, Madame Billeau, with her
husband.
BRAND made no last remarks. He
failed to realize his critical con-
dition or the fact that his heart had
been rapidly giving out in the last
few days.
Dominant World Figure
The dead statesman lay this
afternoon on the bed in the tiny
simply furnished room in which he
died. The first important visitor
was President Paul Doumer.
Aristide Pie re Henri BRAND was
a dominant and engrossing figure
on the world political stage.
Premier of France ten times,
minister in so many cabinets that
he himself could not recall the ex-
act number off hand, the controlling
force of French political thought at
some of the most difficult moments
in her history, BRAND was a world
figure of the very first rank.
He was the League of Nations
staunchest advocate, friend Of
peace, a liberal in thought and
politics.
Extraordinary Figure
BRAND was an extraordinary
figure in his later years.
His heavy shaggy head seemed too
large for comparatively slender
body. His eyebrows were shaggy
his moustache loosely trimmed, and
at the council table he often seemed
TO be mapping. But should some
thing be spoken that interested
him. he came to life, and in q
twinkle his blue eyes were flashing
about the table and his hoarse
semi-croaking, but eloquent voice
was lifted in forceful expression.
He smoked eighty cigarets a day
retired each evening at 8. after
drinking a large glass of milk ano
a generous tot of rum.
Held Many High Offices
BRAND occupied every high office
his beloved France could give except
that of president. He was defeated
for that office in 1881 when il
seemed certain ne would win. But
the defeat did not dim his prestige
He continued as minister for for
eign affairs until January, 1882
when i'll health forced his retire
ment.
Perhaps Brands greatest contri-
button to France was the difficult
negotiations he carried out with
Germany following the war. He or.
dered the occupation of the RUIN
in 1921.
Later he formed close friendship
with Gustave Stresemann, the Ger.
man statesman.
He was instrumental in formulat.
ing the Locarno pact and in tn,
final evacuation of the RhinelanC
by the French in 1890.
He also negotiated the Washing.
ton and London settlements of wal
debts.
With American Secretary OF Stat
kellogg he framed the BRAND
kellogg treaty by which the nation
{ of the world renounced war as al
instrument Of national policy.