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...that cordiale ("I suppose we will have to learn zee bar-bee-cue," quipped Nicole). For more than a year there has been gossip that the Alphands would be leaving Washington. Now called home to Paris to take over the No. 2 post in the Quai d'Orsay under Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville, Alphand makes way in Washington for a Frenchman who might better understand "zee bar-bee-cue"-possibly the Quai's political section chief, Charles Lucet, who has 16 years' diplomatic service...
...French evidently think that even token participation in SEATO could be construed as support for U.S. policies in Viet Nam. The Quai d'Orsay therefore announced that it would send only an "observer" to next week's annual SEATO meeting in London, though all other members are sending foreign ministers. "Deplorable," declared the conference's British hosts, who had been flattering themselves that their understanding with De Gaulle was rather good since Harold Wilson's visit to Paris four weeks ago, and had hoped that the French might underwrite a condemnation of Indonesian aggression in Malaysia...
...last weekend in Paris for two days of official talks. Things went surprisingly well, though a mismatch of menus laid canard Rouen on Guest Harold Wilson's plate for both lunch and dinner one day, first at the Elysée and then at the Quai d'Orsay. Unruffled, Wilson declared the conversations "outspoken, robust and constructive," and a smiling De Gaulle let it be known on his part that he had been considerably impressed with Wilson's intellect...
Many evenings there are lines outside his basement nightclub, "Catacombs 65" (from the church's address, 65 Quai d'Orsay), waiting to drink coffee or lemonade and hear young singers and musicians. In another adjunct of the church, its 300-seat theater, the professional Paris Theater Workshop-whose advisers include Jean Seberg and William Saroyan-presents Sartre, Beckett and Albee as part of "Open End," a freewheeling series of dramas, concerts and discussions...
...Gabon's 6,000 Frenchmen that meant only one thing: the U.S. had been behind the abortive coup in hopes of discountenancing le grand Charles. This pied-noir illogic reached all the way to Paris' Quai d'Orsay, where foreign-office officials helped spread the rumor. Last week the anti-American feeling coalesced into violence. A Simca-load of colons cruised past the U.S. embassy in Libreville, peppered the building with shotgun fire. An hour later a bomb exploded in the garden...