Word: orsay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dienbienphu writhed in its last agony, the Viet Minh representatives arrived in triumph. They were met by China's Chou Enlai, Russia's Gromyko, and North Korea's Nam II, while a French aide frantically telephoned the Quai d'Orsay: "Send me three Vietnamese in a hurry! Otherwise we shall produce my cook-he's a Vietnamese...
That afternoon Admiral Arthur Radford flew in from the U.S., went straight from the airport to confer with Dulles, then met Eden and Bidault. At 4 o'clock the three Western ministers met for a final conference at the Quai d'Orsay. Bidault admitted frankly that the fall of Dienbienphu was a matter of days, if not hours. Bidault discussed the possibility of the U.S. and Britain sending planes or troops. Both Eden and Bidault agreed that the best answer was the Southeast Asia pact, which only two weeks ago they had both viewed with misgivings. But such...
...Hurry. Next day, Dulles called at the Quai d'Orsay, spent half an hour with Bidault in his private office, prodding him to action on EDC (see below), then went upstairs to the tapestry-hung Salon de Beauvais, where the Indo-Chinese experts were waiting. Dulles went directly to the central problem: France's long-standing resistance to "internationalizing" the Indo-Chinese war. its eagerness to control all the talking at Geneva...
...investigation has been started. Ben Youssef's implacable Berber enemy, the old Pasha of Marrakech, is supposed to have had a hand in spreading the stories. The French Foreign Office professes to be horrified. Digging up old tales about him at this time, said a Quai d'Orsay spokesman properly, is "not fair play...
...Relations between France and Andorra cannot be broken, because Andorra is not a sovereign state," said one Quai d'Orsay official impatiently last week. "One of her co-Princes, the President of France, has now sent a message complaining that the Council of the Valleys has failed to ratify certain French reforms. We are now waiting to hear what Andorra's other co-Prince has to say." The other co-Prince, the Spanish Bishop of Urgel, whose title goes back as far as Auriol's, said nothing. He had only their spiritual welfare at heart, the bishop...