Word: claudel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Frank Billings Kellogg, onetime (1925-29) U. S. Secretary of State, sponsor of the Kellogg Peace Pact, was given the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor, highest award of France, by Paul Claudel. French Ambassador to the U. S. Said Ambassador Claudel: "This red and flaming badge of honor could find no better place than across your chest...
...unused pages of the so-called Four-Power Treaty which the U. S., Britain, France and Japan drafted in 1921. A phrase in this treaty makes it possible for the Four Powers to discuss "freely and fully" almost any Far Eastern matter. Statesman Stimson sent for his excellency Paul Claudel, Ambassador from the other parent country of the Kellogg Treaty and one of the Four Powers. He also called in the British, Japanese and Italian representatives to tell them what went on. Soon from Washington to Moscow, via Paris flashed word that Statesman Stimson thought Russia should be reminded that...
Easily secured by Mr. Stimson was the cooperation of both Britain and France, the latter country consenting to transmit his "reminder" to Russia (see p. 9). Soon after the "reminder" was transmitted, Statesman Stimson received formal assurance from China and Russia (the latter through French Ambassador Paul Claudel) that each would abide by the Kellogg Treaty, that neither intended to take hostile action in their dispute...
France complained of general tariff increases. Ambassador Claudel declared the situation to "justify discontent, the manifestations of which are becoming more and more lively." He pointed out that French citizens bought an average of $6.39 worth of U. S. goods each year, whereas each U. S. citizen bought only $1.32 worth of French goods...
...Bastille Day (July 14), French Ambassador Paul Claudel addressed the convention, said: "I ... feel impelled to raise the same question as did General Gouraud eleven years ago in Metz. And speaking with a loud voice above your heads, I address myself to the soldiers of France, not only to the living, but to the thousands and tens of thousands of dead, and I say: 'Soldiers of France, you have seen the men of the Rainbow Division, you lived with them, you fought with them, you died with them and you won with them. What do you think of them...