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...France, the country called upon to make the greatest individual sacrifice, was quite certain that the Plan was not in effect last week. Reporters besieging the Quai d'Orsay could find no French statesman willing to be quoted directly, but came away with a fairly definite statement of the official French position...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Beggar No Chooser | 7/20/1931 | See Source »

Trusty Hoover helpers who scampered sweltering around Paris day & night, popping in now upon Premier Laval, now upon Finance Minister Pierre Etienne Flandin, and now upon "the Old Tomcat of the Quai D'Orsay," slumberous, feline Foreign Minister Aristide Briand, included notably a youngster and an oldster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Hoover to Laval! | 7/13/1931 | See Source »

...Paris. There the nervous elbows of Ambassador Edge, smart advertising man who became U. S. Senator from New Jersey and married Maine's prettiest girl, fanned up and down more excitedly than ever. He had no more than delivered the Hoover proposal at the Quai d'Orsay than all France began to pout because of the notion that the U. S. President had neglected to conduct any preliminary discussions with her. Time and again, Ambassador Edge's motor hummed through the Place de l'Alma, across the Seine at Pont Alexander III and back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Exquisite Sensation | 7/6/1931 | See Source »

Loew's State -- "Those Three French Girls". Namely, Fify d'Orsay, Nola d' Avril and Sondra Ravel being continental...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOARDS AND BILLBOARDS | 10/18/1930 | See Source »

...technique of hand grenades near the graves of Belleau Wood, and while Mussolini considers the beauty of machine guns, Aristide Briand has given European diplomats another opportunity to write their names on a piece of paper. Long featured in frayed journalese as the canny apostle of the Quai D'Orsay, Briand has dragged an ancient skeleton from the diplomatic closet placarded "Pan-Europe" and rattled its bones from the lake front of Geneva to the austere marble of the Hague...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRACTICAL POLITICS? | 5/28/1930 | See Source »

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