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...Quai d'Orsay, the Salon de l'Horloge was being readied for the new conference. It was expected to take only a few days to establish six international commissions, which would survey Europe's needs by Sept. 1. Complained Jules, the bent, silver-haired Quai d'Orsay usher: "Things never used to move so fast around here. Now they ask me to get the Salon de l'Horloge ready for next Saturday, and cannot even tell me how many nations will be there. You understand, we cannot have any empty chairs around the conference table...
...Krim got a hero's welcome in Cairo, where Farouk also protects the white-bearded ex-Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin el-Husseini, and exiled Nationalist Leader Habib Bourgiba of Tunisia. But there was consternation in Paris. The Quai d'Orsay called El-Krim's action "contrary to the traditions of honor that are those of Moroccans of his rank...
Soragna stepped into his black Packard, rode to the Quai d'Orsay and through the iron gates to the French Foreign Ministry. The diplomats of the victorious Allies were assembled there in the graceful old Salon de 1'Horloge, with its five big windows overlooking the murky Seine, where in 1856 the Crimean War had come to an end, where Clemenceau had ratified the Treaty of Versailles, and where the Kellogg-Briand pact to outlaw war had been signed...
...Superhuman Forbearance." Secretary Byrnes was in Paris. Since the opening of the Peace Conference, an amateur statistician of the Quai d'Orsay had estimated Byrnes had uttered some 90,000 words in public. But since Wallace had attacked his policy he had not spoken one. Now he still said nothing...
Married. Georges Bidault, 46, middle-of-the-road French Foreign Minister, wartime Resistance leader; and Suzanne Borel, 41, his assistant at the Quai d'Orsay and earlier in the underground (where he was known as "Vieu," she as "Suzy"); both for the first time; in Paris...