M. Herriot

Edouard Herriot, for 18 years Mayor of Lyons (" the French Chicago"), Socialist, member of the Finance Committee of the Chamber of Deputies, arrived in Manhattan on board the French liner France. While in the U. S., M. Herriot will be the guest of the Brooklyn

Chamber of Commerce. The principal object of his American trip is to induce business men to exhibit at the annual fair at Lyons, which was first organized by him in 1914 as a rival to the German fair at Leipzig. The 1924 fair will be held the first two weeks in March in the new exhibition palace, which is a kilometer in length. M. Herriot's visit includes stops in Manhattan, Washington, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Montreal, Buffalo.

M. Herriot is famed for his radical social views, holding, however, in common with most Latins, that the family rather than the individual is the unit of society. His political opinions are free of the stamp of the propaganda factory. He believes that business men should be given charge of international relations. He contends that M. Poincare, whom he does not believe an imperialist, made a mistake in invading the Ruhr, and asserts that a customs frontier along the already occupied Rhineland would have secured reparations cash without arousing the nationalist feelings of Germany; that, for all French protestations, France is in a far more stable economic condition than England, despite the fiscal disparity.

This genial little Frenchman from the Midi goes where he likes, even into Soviet Russia, says what he thinks, does as he pleases. He is a thorn in the side of the Quai d'Orsay.