Word: orsay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...evening last week the U.S. and British Ambassadors to France hurried to the Quai d'Orsay with an urgent message; the next morning the British High Commissioner to West Germany strode into Palais Schaumburg and interrupted an Adenauer Cabinet session with the same news. After waiting more than two years for France to make up its mind on EDC, the U.S. and Britain had decided to go it without France, at least part of the way. Unless France acts on EDC before its Parliament quits for the summer (around Aug. 15), Washington and London would give West Germany...
...apprehensive of Mendèes' course. MRPers repeated their charge that Mendes planned a complete capitulation to the Communists. Snapped Bidault: "Never before has one Frenchman done as much to cut off the arms France extends to her allies." In the press, Maurice Schumann, longtime Quai d'Orsay lieutenant of Robert Schuman, launched a series of articles accusing Mendèes of "isolating" France and thus paving the way toward a disastrous slide into the Communist orbit. The Communist negotiators, Mendes retorted, "will recognize specifically, if they should be tempted to forget it, that every attempt to disassociate...
...Vietnamese Prime Minister emerged from his drab Paris hotel one day last week, and took the subway across town. At the Palais d'Orsay he went up to his new government offices (a second-floor hotel room), where he started dictating memoranda to his executive' secretary (a part-time animated-cartoon artist). All day the Prime Minister greeted diplomats, newspapermen and Vietnamese well-wishers in courtly turmoil, now and then lapsing into deep meditation and silence...
Hope for a Civilian. Francis Lacoste is no stranger to Morocco. In 1947 he was the Quai d'Orsay's delegate to Marshal Alphonse Juin's Moroccan Residency. Although he was no policymaker, he became an expert on Moroccan peasant problems and maintained friendly relations with the now-deposed Ben Youssef. A graduate of the University of Paris' School of Political Science, he served diplomatic apprenticeships in Belgrade and Peking, returned to France during World War II, fought in the resistance, won a Croix de Guerre. Since the war he has had tours in Washington...
...days later, Dulles issued his call for "united action." What he actually envisioned was a show of united determination to give the West bargaining strength at Geneva to offset Dienbienphu. By the time the news got out from London and Paris (through Foreign Office and Quai D Orsay leaks), Dulles' plan and his later warning that Chinese intervention was coming "awfully close" to direct intervention had become something else. In the British and French press, the plan, coupled with the memory of threats of "massive retaliation," grew to an "ultimatum." The British began to see visions of H-bombs...