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...roses. No one thought of cheering "Byrnes the Just." Whatever the Peace of Paris might bring, it would not cause the corrosive disillusionment which came in the wake of 1919's extravagant hopes. On the conference's opening day, police set up wooden barricades near the Luxembourg Palace to keep the crowds back-but there were no crowds. At lunchtime, the Prefect of Police personally inspected the whole palace to make sure that it contained no bombs. Then the delegates began to file past the honor guard's drawn swords (Molotov was the only delegate...
...delegates around the Luxembourg Palace council table exuded international friendliness. Cheerfully and without rancor they discussed a difficult problem: was it right to label a wine as a "Bordeaux," even if it had been diluted with inferior Algerian grapes? The cheerful worriers were delegates to an international wine convention which met in the back rooms of the Palace. When Ernie Bevin was told about their presence, he sighed wistfully: "I bet they got away to dinner at a respectable hour...
...small brown eyes wearily encompassed the gilded room, of which everyone was heartily sick by now. As last-day chairman of the conference, he asked: "Any more items?" Bidault waved his hands in a negative gesture. Molotov gazed stonily through the window at the dusk settling over the Luxembourg Gardens. Byrnes shook his head and absently kept penciling a pattern of diminishing circles on a loose sheet of paper. "All right," said Bevin at 9:17. "We meet again at the Peace Conference...
...Luxembourg Palace bar, Ernest Bevin wrapped his big hand around a Scotch & water and ruminated: "A drink is good any time, but it's better when you need it." How much he needed it, he indicated when a fellow drinker asked: "What goes on, anyway?" Replied Ernie: "I don't know. I just sit and listen. I know that if I fall back on the wisdom of the U.S. I will be all right. Jim will have a formula...
...first harmony achieved by the Luxembourg quartet-when the Big Four at last agreed on something and awarded the tiny Italian communities of Briga and Tenda to France-sounded off-key to a man who had a perfect ear for music, but who was politically a little tone deaf...