Word: orsay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the Quai d'Orsay to the Place des Invalides the street lamps were on, shining wanly through black shrouds of crepe. As if to make up for official negligence that may have cost the old gentleman his life, the entire distance was lined with steel-helmeted soldiers, elbow to elbow. Six feet behind this first line was a second line of Republican Guards, with a row of plainclothes detectives stationed between the two. Thus last week did France bury her great Foreign Minister, Louis Barthou. All the diplomats who stood bareheaded under the grey sky, all the regiments...
...that she intends to treat it as a fait accompli. France, like the other powers, is not without Chinese interests, in Yunnan, as well as in Indo-China, and any undue increase in Japanese influence could only cause in Japanese influence could only cause uneasiness at the Quai d'Orsay...
Nervous about its effect, Foreign Minister Louis Barthou brought to a cabinet meeting two drafts of a note to be sent to Britain. After heated debate led by Premier Doumergue, a majority of the Cabinet voted for the stronger message,which a Quai d'Orsay spokesman boiled down to a single sentence : "France realizes the gravity of her act, but henceforth France will not disarm to the extent of a single gun as long as Germany continues to rearm." It was necessary for France to repair her military alliances. Rumania, Czechoslovakia, Jugoslavia-the Little Entente-had already approved...
...less romantic in real life than they seem on the air. Bill Williams is acting in a cinema, backed by a solemn Ernest-P. Baker (Stuart Erwin). directed by a sardonic Mr. Conroy (Ned Sparks). In the cast is Williams' temperamental mistress Lili Yvonne (Fifi D'Orsay), whom he describes in Going Hollywood's most sombre song as his Temptation...
...came a cracker: "These inquiries have allowed us to establish a general basic plan to be undertaken in the near future ... by collaboration with the Associated Press and the Havas news agency. . . . The Quai d'Orsay assures the technical and financial control of this news service...