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...French reworded their draft communiqué to make it clear that it implied merely an agreement to try to reach agreement. The British still argued that it read to them like an advance commitment. A Quai d'Orsay spokesman said testily: "Their diplomatic notes sound as if they haven't read our diplomatic notes...
...called to Paris to see if his superior knowledge of the English language and the British viewpoint could help straighten things out. In Paris, British Ambassador Sir Oliver Harvey's big Rolls-Royce virtually ran a shuttle service between the British embassy and the Quai d'Orsay as Harvey delivered the messages from London. At one point, the British embassy issued a statement to the press: "It is important at this stage to make the British government's attitude quite clear. The British government yield to none in their approval of the proposal to hold a conference...
...Washington, State Department officials made plans to carry the case of Coca-Cola right into the Quai d'Orsay, headquarters of French diplomacy. France's ban, State was prepared to point out, was contrary to Franco-American trade agreements which provided for low U.S. tariffs (40^ to $1.25 on a gallon) on most French wines in return for similar French concessions on soft drink concentrates...
...responsibility for the first World War had been no greater than France's. "Hitler," he shouted, "was a product of the Versailles treaty and of France's own despondency." To emphasize the Saar issue, the Bonn government called off a trade parley with the Quai d'Orsay...
...Parrot Room of the French Foreign Ministry, Schuman grew increasingly nervous. With a foreign policy debate scheduled in the French Assembly next week which could easily topple France's shaky cabinet, he kept Premier Bidault constantly informed of the trend of talk at the Quai d'Orsay, and once Acheson and Bevin had to wait while Schuman rushed off to brief an emergency cabinet session. The Reds promptly set up a howl that Schuman was selling France down the Rhine. The Communist L'Humanité gibed: "Serons! nous cocacolonisés? [Will we be Coca-Colonized...