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...Nations and the United States to the affair. Although its chronological summary of the diplomacy involved and its pessimistic prophesy for the future degeneration of the League are careful and thorough, the article's greatest importance lies in a penetrating criticism of the legal aspects of the Kellogg-Briand Pact and a presagement of international instability as a consequence of Secretary Stimson's January 7 letter, advocating the annulment of all treaties exacted by force...
...Paris the heart of Aristide Briand, Europe's Great Pacifier, failed last week. A few days before what would have been his 70th birthday he died in his small bachelor home. He had been eleven times Premier of France. Called the Master Parliamentarian of Europe, he was also Europe's foremost orator. To the very end, his famed "cello voice" could rouse the French Chamber or Senate to tempests and transports of emotion?but he knew to a nicety how few were his friends...
...great heart of Aristide Briand broke, so France believes, when the Chamber and Senate in joint session and by secret ballot refused to elect him President of France last year, as they had earlier refused to elect Georges Clemenceau. Briand lingered on, even remained Foreign Minister until a few weeks ago, but his death was no surprise to his few real friends. Death, to Aristide Briand, meant the end. Like Fighter Clemenceau, Pacifier Briand had a minimum of belief in God and a future life, if he could be said to have any. Of the French Wartime "Big Three" only...
Jean Jaures, Boiling with life and radiating brilliance, Aristide Briand, the son of parents in comfortable circumstances, rushed upon the stage of France as a Socialist lawyer. By his flaming words the proletariat of Nantes was aroused in 1894 to declare, prematurely, a general strike. Through the odious Dreyfus scandal Briand and Clemenceau fought beside the Master Socialist Jean Jaures for the freedom of Captain Dreyfus. Jaures remained irreconcilably radical. Taking the constructive road of compromise, both Clemenceau and Briand had become Premier of France before citizen Jean Jaures was assassinated July 31, 1914. Explicitly predicting and clearly foreseeing...
Peace, Peace, Peace. Expelled by Jaures' Socialist Party in 1906, Aristide Briand began his lifelong career of pacification. His first great act of statecraft was peacefully to disestablish the Roman Catholic Church while arranging for the continuance of its rites in France. When he first became Premier (1909), M. Briand significantly appointed himself "Minister of Interior and Worship." Ironically in 1910, Aristide Briand who in 1894 had incited a general strike, broke a threatened general strike of French railwaymen, pacified them...