Paris, Sept. 12, M, Briand's luncheon at Geneva, given to the heads of the 27 delegations at the League of Natio Assembly for the discussion of his federation project, may have been Buropean in one sense, but it was quite French in another. The names of a river, a district, a pro-vinea, and a town in, France all figured on the menu. Grilled salmon from the Loire was accompanied by the sauce that take ime from the native heath of the King who hoped that all his. subjects would be. sufficiently pros porous to ent chicken on Sunday. Beauce partridges were followed by Argenteuil salad and preceded by '"merilles;" a. kind of mushroom that refuses to be cultivated and is redolent of the fertile soil of F¥ance, For such a meal, the of course, could not be any-but French.
Even~in these degenerate days, of mineral: water it is evidently necessary for a statesman to he at least a fairly good—trencherman. Newspaper correspondents, who did. not partake of the luncheon, record that M. Briand and his guests were still talking hard at 4 p.m., apparently in no way handicapped all the good things they had fenton and drunk. M.—Briand's countrymen in general seem to prove of his efforts to transform Europe into an. economic federation. Someone had to make a beginning, but who shall see the end?
Briand Ciling the cent Europe in economic affairs, he will rank with the greatest statesmen of the world, In the meantime, he can look out for squalls when the French Parliament reassembles next month. All the forces of. the Int Gartel will be arrayed against for giving away too much at The Hague.
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