Word: orsay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reporters see this little man in horn spectacles waddle through the great iron gates of the Quai d'Orsay and up to the Premier's state apartments several times each week. Although known principally today as Paris' No. 1 Astrologer, M. Privat has behind him many years of working journalism. He is the author of a fat stack of works comprising his investigations of celebrated judicial cases, exotic crimes and the lives of statesmen he knew as a reporter. The incredible report which much of Paris now avidly believes is that Astrologer Privat assists Premier Laval from...
...Quai d'Orsay switchboard operator was told to get Stanley Baldwin on the telephone. She reported that the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom was not to be reached by telephone even on the joint request of His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and the President of the Council of Ministers of France. There was nothing unusual in this. Mr. Baldwin often refuses to use the telephone. Instinct and experience warned him that he would be better able to make up his mind as to the justice and wisdom of dismembering Ethiopia after...
...France, after much pressure by British Ambassador Sir George Clerk upon the Quai d'Orsay, Premier Pierre Laval guardedly repeated the ambiguous pledge he gave last autumn in such terms that London papers last week gave their readers to understand that M. Laval had said France will join England in the fight if Mussolini should do anything silly...
...last week asked his coalition Cabinet to meet him in the historic Clock Room of the French Foreign Office one day at 9:30 a. m. Figuratively M. Laval then locked the door. Except for lunch and dinner, superbly provided by the famed chef of the Quai d'Orsay, for over 14 hours there was nothing but work in the Salle d'Horloge with its massive, slowly ticking clock. At ten minutes before midnight the weary Cabinet rose, having drafted no less than 28 emergency decrees...
...past, the Japanese have advanced with bewildering speed and have then maliciously thumbed their noses at the rest of the world. Downing Street, Rue d'Orsay, Pennsylvania Avenue have been caught sleeping under the table, and, harried by an eager press, have attempted to formulate a policy on the spur of the moment. The result of the 1931 flasco was our stupid non-recognition policy and our futile attempts to cooperate with the League of Nations...