Show j I Herrick Brings the Briand I I Tr Treaty aty I IBy v By HERBERT S. S HOUSTON Member of the American Committee International Chamber of Commerce Ambassador Herrick is i a n. prophet who has great honor In his own country The reason Is quite apart from his own winning personality that his prophecies have a way of coming coining true When the sky was vas dark darl with forecasts of oC misunderstandings with France Lindbergh dropped out of it at Le LeBourget LeBourget Bourget and the sky cleared Immediately It it was plain to to ev everyone as Ambassador Herrick had hati been saying all aU along long that the old friendship for America among the this French people was as st strong ong Ds as ever v r. r vo T years before when unveiling a statue in memory memory mem- mem mem 1 ory of our soldiers wo had lost their lives on a abl a bl battlefield In Champ Champagne the ambassador had challenged chal chat the talk about American isolation H lie declared that thai such a n policy was ws unthinkable I and closed with the impressive staten statement ent that unless In bearing o our r part in the world we plowed the furrow fur fur- furrow furrow fur fur- row the dead dea who were being there commemorated corn com I would have died In vain The writer heard Ambassador Herrick say much the same thing In presenting the congressional gold medal to the tho defenders at Verdun And the French have seen seen such statements fully fuBy confirmed by facts With this this' background of clear understanding as to o the real feeling that exists In the two t countries this ambassador of goodwill is Js returning home with the draft of the proposed Briand tr treaty aty between them to forever outlaw war wai Seldom has a a. diplomat been on on ona a more fitting Otting mission For never before probably probably probably ably in he history of diplomacy has an Odor dor had So much to do as has Mr Mi Herrick Ip In de developing developing de- de e that Inner spirit between countries of which a i treaty would be the outward and visible evidence This proposed Biland treaty to outlaw war var between between be be- tween France and the United States is received by the public opinion of both countries with broad com corn No active opposition to it has appeared on oh either side of the ocean that Is important Th The state department may naturally raise the point that the Bryan arbitration tr treaty aty with France covers ade- ade qu tely the matters embodied in the Briand treaty But thele o is Js every reason to believe that the whole subject of Am French American relations Will be con considered con con- in what a recent president of the United I States called an atmosphere of accommodation Lindbergh In the first air all voyage to Paris was wa acclaimed as a messenger of goodwill On his r return ie- ie turn his first words in r response to the official wel wei- come in Washington were that he was a bearer of a L message of friendship with France Now Ambassador dor Herrick comes home fittingly enough on th the first voyage of the new flagship of the French merchant merchant mer mer- chant marine the He Tie de France and brings with I him a gl great at peace treaty to outlaw war Two months month S hence when the treaty is being actively discussed 1 G General Pershing goes to France again at the head I of a great army aimy of goodwill to attend the American Ameil- Ameil can legion convention meeting for the time tim e since the var war in the countr country where the war Wa was 5 fought rought and in close dose comradeship with French companions com corn in arms If all au all the worlds world's stage a stage there finer co could ld be n no 0 setting for foi an event of far i reaching far caching Won world significance two significance two great allies J in war joining in th the C bonds of a a. formal treaty to outlaw war Ambassador There are many who believe and it may be he that tha t Herrick Hernick is among them that the full ful II consideration of our relations with France may i-c i ic- ic suit sult in the settlement of the troublesome debt ques ques- tion bon Assuredly there never before has been a tim time e as favorable a as this for the settlement of of orall all outstanding out out- standing questions between b tween the two c Jes in a spirit of friendship an and l of justice Copyright 1927 Cosmos Newspaper S Syndicate Inc |