Word: orsay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pentagon, now as familiar an address around the world as Whitehall, 10 Downing Street or the Quai d'Orsay, is a vast concrete and limestone materialization of the military mind. Like the military mind, it inspires awe, often admiration, sometimes exasperation. It is simple in concept and organization, infinitely complex in detail; a marvel of systematic sense when the system is mastered, a mire of confusion when it is not. It is the brain of the U.S.'s armed might. Through its radio antennae its nerve ends reach to a bloody hill in Korea, to Eisenhower...
...Paris, where official appointments begin at 10 a.m., Ike was at Premier René Pleven's office door at 8. Half an hour later he was at the Quai d'Orsay conferring with Foreign Minister Robert Schuman. Before 9 he moved on to talks with Defense Minister Jules Moch. He broke off intensive conferences with France's service chiefs only for an official luncheon. Said an astonished reporter: "The shortest that has ever been known. The guests were at the table for 40 minutes...
...French reworded their draft communiqué to make it clear that it implied merely an agreement to try to reach agreement. The British still argued that it read to them like an advance commitment. A Quai d'Orsay spokesman said testily: "Their diplomatic notes sound as if they haven't read our diplomatic notes...
...called to Paris to see if his superior knowledge of the English language and the British viewpoint could help straighten things out. In Paris, British Ambassador Sir Oliver Harvey's big Rolls-Royce virtually ran a shuttle service between the British embassy and the Quai d'Orsay as Harvey delivered the messages from London. At one point, the British embassy issued a statement to the press: "It is important at this stage to make the British government's attitude quite clear. The British government yield to none in their approval of the proposal to hold a conference...
...Washington, State Department officials made plans to carry the case of Coca-Cola right into the Quai d'Orsay, headquarters of French diplomacy. France's ban, State was prepared to point out, was contrary to Franco-American trade agreements which provided for low U.S. tariffs (40^ to $1.25 on a gallon) on most French wines in return for similar French concessions on soft drink concentrates...