Word: orsay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Diplomatically the strongest foreign office in Europe is that of France. Last week the Quai d'Orsay further strengthened itself by appointing famed Jules Henry to the post of chief adviser to new Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet. M. Henry during his 17 years as a member of the French Embassy in Washington became the best liked, most influential...
...colonies would cease; and 4) France, following Britain's acknowledgement that Italy has certain rights in respect to Palestine, would agree that Italy also has certain rights in respect to Syria, a French mandate. As a preliminary to these far-reaching plans, the Quai d'Orsay this week announced that Premier Daladier and M. Bonnet had "gladly" accepted the British invitation to confer on the matter in London on April...
...there was nothing wrong about the German Army's entering Austria at the "invitation" of the Austrian Government. This was, they said, no violation of international law and it was "not invasion"-an opinion which sounded like the Wilhelmstrasse but was actually that of the Quai d'Orsay...
...Europe was simultaneously drawing deductions from the hospitality of Buckingham Palace and No. 10. The Quai d'Orsay was hearing from Rome that Mussolini, now just entering upon negotiations through diplomatic channels with Chamberlain and already on an Axis with Hitler (TIME, Nov. 2, 1936), was "in these circumstances" not again going to mobilize Italian troops along the frontier of Austria as he did in 1934 after the Nazi assassination of Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss...
...given for this was that lack of such coordination had "paralyzed" what might otherwise have been quick French action after Hitler invaded the Rhineland. But there was last week no Cabinet in France at the moment, and to the Austrian Government, calling frantically from Vienna, the Quai d'Orsay had to reply that "in the circumstances" no action likely to check the German advance could be taken by France...