Exits and Entrances

At a Cabinet meeting in Paris, many diplomatic changes were approved, one of the most important being the appointment of M. Emile Daeschner, Director of Administrative Affairs at the Quai d’Orsay (French Foreign Office), to succeed M. Jean Jules Jusserand as French Ambassador to the U. S. In accordance with diplomatic custom the French Government submitted for approval of the U. S. Government the name of M. Daeschner.

Jean Adrien Antoine Jules Jusserand is 69 years of age and was born at Lyon, the city of which Premier Herriot is mayor. It was his ambition to fight in the Franco-Prussian war, but being only 15 years of age he was unable to enlist. Struck by his ignorance of foreign countries he decided at that time to become a diplomat.

At the age of 21, or in 1876, he entered the diplomatic corps and after spending 22 years at the Quai d’Orsay and at the Embassy in London, he was appointed Minister to Denmark, which position he held for four years.

In March of 1903, when Theodore Roosevelt was President of the U. S., there appeared before him M. Jusserand, who thereupon presented his cre-dentials as French Ambassador at Washington ; he later became the dean of the diplomatic corps there. This honor will now devolve upon the Spanish Ambassador, Señor Riano, who has been in Washington since 1903.

President Roosevelt and M. Jusserand were often to be seen “hiking” in the environs of Washington. The former held the Ambassador in high esteem. “He diffuses an atmosphere of integrity,” Mr. Roosevelt once exclaimed. And on another occasion: “The Ambassador has proved himself as able a servant of France as France has ever had in her long line of able servants. And he has proved himself as loyal a friend as ever France has provided.”

Beside being an able ambassador, M. Jusserand is a scholar of great attainments. He is the author of many valuable studies in English literature and civilization. For the past 21 years, or since he first went to Washington, he has been engaged in writing A Literary History of the English People. He has also acted as general editor of Les Grand Écrivains Français — a series of studies in the life, works and influence of principal French writers.

Emile Daeschner is 61 years of age and was born in Alsace. His diplomatic experience has earned for him the epithet of “best trained diplomat in the French service.” He has held posts in the Embassies at London and Madrid and was Minister to Lisbon and Bucharest. In the Quai d’Orsay he has served under such eminent statesmen as Premiers Rouveer and Poincaré and the famed League of Nations champion, Senator Leon Bourgeois.

He is a Protestant, like President Doumerque, is married and has six children. Owing to having spent ten years in England he speaks English perfectly.

Other appointments made: M. de Fleuriau, Minister to Peking, to be Ambassador to Great Britain in place of Comte de Saint Aulaire; Senator Réné Besnard to be Ambassador to Italy, displacing M. Barriére, who for 27 years has represented France at Rome; M. Peretti della Rocca, Director of Political and Commercial Affairs at the Quai d’Orsay, to be Ambassador to Spain in room of M. de Fontenay; Comte Charles de Chambrun, Director of Press Service at the Quai d’Orsay, to be Minister at Athens; Deputy Jean Hennessy, ardent supporter of the League of Nations, to be Minister to Switzerland.