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According to the French Nationalists, Premier Edouard Herriot arose one morning last week, abluted, consumed his coffee and petits-pains, descended to his office in the Quai d'Orsay (French Foreign Office) and there read certain handwriting on the wall: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN...
...Quai d'Orsay (French Foreign Office) met the Finance Ministers and representatives of the Allied and Associated Powers.** Their task was to decide how the proceeds from the Experts' Plan are to be paid...
Behind the gray walls of the Quai d'Orsay the two statesmen conducted an unusual conference. There were no witnesses, and none was needed; not even an interpreter, for Mr. Chamberlain speaks French almost as well as M. Herriot. But the walls of the Quai d'Orsay are not so thick that they do not have chinks, the windows are not so dirty that they are opaque and the doors are not so made that they have no keyholes...
...Paris, Lord Crewe, British Ambassador to France, called at the Quai d'Orsay and was received by Premier Herriot. According to reliable information, the two distinguished statesmen discussed African policy...
Control of the Government of Tunis is exercised by the Tunisian Department of the Quai d'Orsay in the name of His Highness Sidi Mohammed el Habib Bey, usually called the Bey of Tunis?a sovereign prince. While the French have established schools, stimulated production and industry, improved finances, they have been unable to secure to the natives any political rights. Thus, in theory, the Bey is an absolute despot...