Word: orsay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years (1924-40) Léger presided behind the scenes of France's Foreign Office. He was known as "the Vansittart of the Quai d'Orsay," "Europe's greatest living diplomat." Said one awed foreign observer: "Präsidenten gehen, Aussenminister gehen, aber Alexis Leger bleibt immer da" ("Presidents go, foreign ministers go, but Alexis Leger always remains...
...March 7, 1936, a thin column of field-grey troops followed a blaring band across the Rhine to reoccupy the territories under French guard since Versailles. The officers carried in their pockets sealed orders to retreat if France resisted. France did not resist. In the Quai d'Orsay and in Whitehall the policy of appeasement was born...
...took to frequenting the milieu, the sinister district centering about the rue de Lappe. As 'Papa' Thernardier, he organized the gang that stole a towel from the Hotel Claridge and defaced the blotters at the American Express Co. A démarche from the Quai d'Orsay shortly forced him to flee Paris...
...bill included Comedian Milton Berle, Tap Dancer Bill ("Bojangles") Robinson, Singers Jane Froman, Ginger Harmon and Fifi D'Orsay - who favored soldier assistants with lipsticky kisses. Proof of Billy Rose's success was the raucous approval of the previously hot, bored soldiers. Greatly pleased was the Citizens Committee for the Army & Navy, Inc., now in charge of all professional Army & Navy entertainment. Last week routes were being charted for seven show-mobiles...
...dilatory way, the French Foreign Office punctured the fast-swelling balloon of protest. After allowing German fury to grow for several days, the Quai d'Orsay called in correspondents and showed them...