Word: daeschner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Concerning the account in your issue of Feb. 9 of the presenting by the new French Ambassador of his credentials to Mr. Coolidge, I found the item not only informing but entertaining. I was particularly delighted by the part in which you described a hypothetical scene between Monsieur Daeschner and the President...
...Butler Wright, Assistant Secretary of State, immaculate in cutaway, ushered into the Blue Room at the White House, where the President, also in afternoon dress, was waiting, a gay trotip. At their head was Emile Daeschner, new Ambassador from France. Behind M. Daeschner, came his staff all in uniform of the French Diplomatic service...
...alleged that M. Daeschner bowed, pressed a packet of papers into the President's hands and burst forth into felicitous words, as follows...
...Daeschner, when he was so gracefully ushered in by Mr. J. Butler Wright, had exclaimed "Pooh!" and spat upon the carpet; if the President, in rejoinder, had ejaculated, "Bah!" and blown his nose with rage, the public would have been none the wiser...
Indeed, the report of their remarks would probably have been substantially the same. For M. Daeschner had carefully penned his remarks in advance and sent them to the White House for the President's approval. Whereupon the President, with equally calculating eloquence, penned his reply and sent it to the Ambassador, so that neither of them might be taken aback by the other's expressions...