Word: orsay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Paris accords), Mendès-France, for all his spectacular performance, has regarded himself as merely clearing the decks. Last week the Premier stepped down as his own Foreign Minister and persuaded his able Minister of Finance, Edgar Faure, to move over to the Quai d'Orsay. Faure, who was Premier once himself (for 40 days in 1952) and would like to be again, is a lawyer and econo mist, a moderately successful writer of mystery stories (under the pseudonym Edgar Sanday), and a backer of the late EDC. His elevation to Foreign Minister is plainly part of Mend...
...early days and spouted eager advice while a barber shaved him or a waiter served lunch have been banished from the inner chambers. For intimate guidance, Mendès now relies on only three disciples-Jean Soutou, 43, and Claude Cheysson. 35, who are intelligent Quai d'Orsay types, and Simon Nora, 33, who is something of a financial wizard. Even emissaries specially summoned from as far away as Indo-China find themselves closeted with the young aides for lengthy interrogations, then see the well-briefed Premier himself for an hour or less...
...Deadline. All morning long negotiators haggled over details, reached agreement only one hour before the signing ceremonies were scheduled. With only 15 minutes to go, Mendès rushed over to the Quai d'Orsay to get his Cabinet's approval, then met Konrad Adenauer in his private office. They signed. Then the Premier hustled the Chancellor down the hallway to the state dining room where Eden, Dulles and the other WEU ministers were waiting...
...along side streets into Paris, in case the people were lining the main roads. But Mendès need not have bothered. There was relief that the war in Indo-China was ended-nothing more. Fewer than 250 Parisians waited outside Mendès' Quai d'Orsay office, and these were mostly Communists who called out. "Long live peace!" as the Premier strode in to work...
...exert his dynamism to press really hard for EDC; he remained vulnerable, in the deathly climate of Geneva, to Communist pressure against the No. 1 objective of U.S. cold war strategy: the rearmament of Germany. "In Mendès-France's office in the Quai d'Orsay," cabled TIME correspondent André Laguerre, "I could hear the worn old cry: 'We must do nothing brutal to provoke the Communists...