Word: orsay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Asian members have once again called for a General Assembly debate on Algeria. For the first time, the French have agreed to let the matter be debated. But, reiterated the Premier, Algeria is a French domestic problem, and "I must ask the U.N. not to interfere." Quai d'Orsay officials privately warned American correspondents that if the U.S. votes for any resolution recognizing U.N. authority to intervene in Algeria it would seriously jeopardize Franco-American friendship...
Change of Title. The biggest remaining affront to Vietnamese pride was French insistence on maintaining a high commissioner instead of an ambassador. Last week that, too, was changed. The Quai d'Orsay announced that High Commissioner Henri Hoppenot, who has never got on well with the Vietnamese, would be recalled and replaced by an ambassador. Delighted, Premier Diem invited Hoppenot to his palace for a farewell Chinese dinner, a gesture unthinkable a year...
...will was still there-in Britain, France and (as long as the method chosen was peaceful) in the U.S. But the way was not clear. Search as they might, the legal beagles of Downing Street, Quai d'Orsay and Foggy Bottom could find no legal challenge to Nasser's nationalization of what was in fact an Egyptian company. What they challenged firmly was the way Nasser did it-precipitantly, without negotiation-and why he did it: "To arouse Arab nationalism...
...Suez Canal, his dire prophecy of an Arab empire stretching from the Persian Gulf to the Atlantic, his incitement to Algerians to rise up against the French-all these were summonses to the diplomats of Foggy Bottom and their opposite numbers in Whitehall and the Quai d'Orsay to consider, consult...
...nerves cistern." Among them, this unlikely crew make Taurum Topic A all over the globe. The Moslem Brotherhood warns that "Israeli plotters [are] at the bottom of the whole thing," the Russians claim they invented the precious gold dust 30 years ago, and a Quai d'Orsay spokesman begs the Americans to "consider the effect of their decision upon the soul of France...