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President Kennedy's first overseas trip will probably be to Paris, for a conference with President Charles de Gaulle. No date has been set, but Quai d'Orsay officials are hoping to confirm a meeting soon after the middle of May-before the state visit of Belgium's King Baudouin to France on May 24. The Kennedy trip, say De Gaulle's aides, "is practically certain...
...mail, sold himself as a potential diplomat with flair rather than experience, was pushed for Paris by Kennedy's Georgetown friend and neighbor. Bill Walton. Kennedy's design may be to match one obstreperous general with another (Gavin knows De Gaulle slightly), but the Quai d'Orsay was discreetly baffled by the appointment. So, less discreetly, were State Department regulars. Since Paris is one of the most expensive American embassies to maintain. Gavin will be the principal beneficiary of the increased expenses to be allotted to nonwealthy ambassadors...
Nevertheless, the Quai d'Orsay was skeptical of a 43-year-old investment banker who was innocent of diplomatic experience. France was in a state of upheaval: Indo-China was falling, Algeria was on fire, and Suez was threatening. Dillon handled himself with unspectacular competence, won French government gratitude at a parlous moment by proclaiming U.S. support of France's "liberal" aims in Algeria...
...make common cause with the former commander in chief in Algeria, General Raoul Salan, 61, who has become a virulent opponent of De Gaulle's policy and was recently ordered to stay out of Algeria. At a Paris news conference last week in the Palais d'Orsay Hotel, newsmen found Salan flanked by 30 retired generals in mufti, a band of right-wing Deputies and Senators, and a cheering section of strong-armed Poujadists. Salan read a statement denouncing De Gaulle for trying to settle the Algerian war by "negotiating with murderers...
Saint-John Perse is the pen name of Alexis Saint-Léger Léger, 73, a diplomat who wrote poetry in secret after his day's work at the Quai d'Orsay in Paris, where he served for years as Secretary-General of the French Foreign Ministry. ''Is this true, Leger, that, as people say, you write poetry in your spare time?" asked Aristide Briand of his faithful assistant. "It is." replied the writer firmly, "an imposture...