Word: orsay
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ambassadors' Conference is a meeting, held casually in the Quai d'Orsay, Paris, and presided over by the French Foreign Minister, of the envoys of the principal Allied powers (Britain, Japan, Italy, France). The diplomats act in concert as the executors of the Versailles peace treaty. If one of the other peace treaties is in question, the associated ally concerned also sits in the Conference...
After the German Government had officially protested to the Quai d'Orsay, President Doumergue of France pardoned the six sentenced Germans...
Paunchy, shaggy-haired Premier Briand of France met taut-waisted, sleek Dictator-Premier Primo de Rivera of Spain at the Quai d' Orsay last week...
...alarmingly shabby individual rushed from the Chambre des Députés, and sought the Quai d'Orsay (Foreign Office) nearby with swift nervous strides. As its portals flashed open before him, he tossed his battered felt hat to a flunkey and bellowed questions and commands in a rich throaty voice. Almost before the Foreign Office secretaries could answer or obey, he had seized his hat again, jammed it down over his thick mane of hair and rushed back to le Chambre. The individual who thus hectically disported himself throughout the week, was, of course, M. Aristide Briand...
...Government refuses to contemplate at present the signing of peace terms with Abd-el-Krim. Deputies gasped as the Premier calmly admitted that he believes the offer of peace made by Krim through one Captain Gordon Canning (TIME, Jan. 4) to be genuine, thus reversing the Quai d'Orsay's original contention that Captain Canning could not be dealt with because he might be an impostor. The Chamber sat up very straight and pricked its ears as M. Briand went on to imply that France and Spain expect to end the Moroccan war next spring with a complete victory over...