HYMANS, PAUL ), Belgian statesman, was born at Ixelles, Brussels, on March 23, 1865. He became a bar rister in 1885, and from 1898 to 1914 was professor of compara tive parliamentary history at Brussels university. From 1900 he was deputy for Brussels and soon became the Liberal leader. After a mission to President Wilson in Aug. 1914 he was pleni potentiary in London, 1915-17, when he became head of the ministry of economic affairs. From 1918-2o and 1924-25 he was minister for foreign affairs. In Nov. 1918 he attended the inter Allied Council at Versailles; he also represented Belgium at the Peace Conference in 1919 and on her behalf signed the peace treaty. In the same capacity he attended the conferences at San Remo, Boulogne, Brussels and Spa. He played a leading part in the settlement of the Ruhr question, the Dawes Plan, the Security Pact and the economic union of Luxembourg with Belgium. In Jan. 192o he was appointed Belgian representative on the League of Nations, and in the same year was made president of the first Assembly at Geneva. On Nov. 29, 1927 he became minister of foreign affairs again after the reconstruction of the Jaspar cabi net. A member of the Academie Royale de Belgique, Hymans continued L'histoire parlementaire de la Belgique etc.) and wrote Frere-Orban (1905, etc.) and Portraits, essais et discours