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Thus with a twinkle and a contented gastronomic sigh, Prime Minister Aristide Briand of France spoke to correspondents in Geneva last week, after a luncheon sure to be recorded as historic...
...heads of the 55 states represented at the Assembly of the League of Nations had been invited?only those from the 27 countries broadly classifiable as "European"*. As a jovial host to these diplomatic neighbors M. Briand had unfolded a little further his imposing scheme for a "United States of Europe" (TIME, Sept...
What astute B'rer Briand really wanted was to get from his guests an endorsement of his scheme which should be unanimous, however vague. Therefore the food and wine were of first importance. No gourmet himself, M. Briand had the menu prepared by M. Aimé Leroy, a noted epicure who is also French Consul-Genera] in Geneva...
Speeches at the luncheon were ostentatiously decreed "secret"' by M. Briand, perhaps to heighten press curiosity. Copious "leaks" revealed however that statesmen-guests representing Belgium, Poland, Chechoslovakia, Jugoslavia and Rumania ?the allies of France?said that they would favor establishment of a ''United States of Europe" in the form of a federation both political and economic. The Germans, Spanish, Dutch and Scandinavians wanted a purely economic "U. S. E." The British, Italians, Hungarians and Albanians were understood to have taken an attitude courteous but noncommittal. Finally "between a pear* and some cheese" M. Briand rose. Would they all authorize...
Questioned by a U. S. correspondent as to whether he would "solicit" Soviet Russia to join his prospective Union, M. Briand bristled visibly. "The word 'solicit'," he snapped, "has an aristocratic air not in keeping with the democracy of the League of Nations. ... I won't say whether Russia will be 'solicited' or not. ... It will be very probable that this new institution will be open to all European nations...