Word: orsay
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Embassy is about to move from 5 Rue de Chaillot, near the Etoile on the right bank of the Seine, to the Hotel Princesse de la Tour d'Auvergne, in the proximity of the Quai d'Orsay, French Foreign Office, on the left bank. The Chancellery will remain provisionally at the Rue de Chaillot...
...George his seat appeared to be the head of the table. To such languorous notes as Peace was piping from its drowsy Valerian hillock Mr. Sullivan added a knowing and a star-spanGled obbligato. He was, in fact, closer to what was happening upon the shifty Quai D'Orsay than were several of the involved prime ministers. We met him one afternoon in the Rue de Rivoli, walking with Baron Sonnino and Wellington Koo. Arthur Krock, of The Louisville Times, was with us and he paused to speak to Mr. Sullivan and the others. ' Have you seen Lansing...
...fairly strong language for a diplomatic note. The Quai d'Orsay- French Foreign Office-officially denies the report that France will now refuse to go to Lausanne, but affirms her intention of not acquiescing in the cancellation of concessions granted before the War. Le Midi, Paris journal, says: " It is a pity the Turks did not ask the Americans to rebuild the Tower of Babel, because the Americans are so good at skyscrapers." Pertinax in the Echo de Paris remarks that "the Chester program is only a means of getting rid of the concessions granted to the French...
...first is a semi-official "warning " issued from the Quai d'Orsay (French State Department): "The French Government will consider as unfriendly and even hostile any effort at mediation. It is determined to take no account of soundings which may be made by intermediaries, and it will examine German propositions only if directly and officially communicated...