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...Herve Alphand, the French Ambassador to the United States, Inst night urged that NATO and the Atlantic alliance be "radically changed...
Lady Bird's accession to the White House did precipitate some clatter of dismay, however. "I suppose," cooed Nicole Alphand, wife of the French Ambassador to the U.S., "that now we will all have to learn to do zee bar-bee-cue." That has not yet become a problem, but Lady Bird has done her bit for zee folk music. Already a guitar-whacking bunch of folk singers called the New Christy Minstrels have entertained at a state dinner for Italy's President Segni, and Lady Bird recently capped a banquet for United Nations Secretary-General U Thant...
...Gaulle was a model of cordial cooperation. He did not quibble at the fact that Ball was of less than Cabinet rank, nor did he demand to know in advance precisely what Ball wanted to talk about. Then word came from Paris that longtime Ambassador to the U.S. Herve Alphand would be replaced in the coming months. Alphand and his elegant wife Nicole had been close to the Kennedys, but showed little interest in L.B.J. before his accession to power ("I suppose we will have to learn zee bar-bee-cue," sniffed Nicole when Johnson became President...
...Couve (whose family dropped the aristocratic De Murville during the French Revolution, reassumed it later) obtained a degree in history and law at the University of Paris and graduated from the Ecole des Sciences Politiques, where he finished first in a class of 300; the second student was Herve Alphand, currently France's Ambassador to the U.S. He then studied for entrance into the corps of Inspecteurs des Finances, a superelite brain trust that admits only a handful of men to its ranks each year and produces some of France's top administrative talent. Its veterans form...
...word twice on the same day. In Paris, U.S. Ambassador Charles Bohlen was called to the Quai d'Orsay and informed of France's intention. In Washington, dapper French Ambassador Hervé Alphand gave the cold slap to Under Secretary of State Averell Harriman. The French government, said Alphand, considered it necessary "to fill the void" left by the Sino-Soviet dispute by accepting "the reality" of China...