Word: quai
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fairly strong language for a diplomatic note. The Quai d'Orsay- French Foreign Office-officially denies the report that France will now refuse to go to Lausanne, but affirms her intention of not acquiescing in the cancellation of concessions granted before the War. Le Midi, Paris journal, says: " It is a pity the Turks did not ask the Americans to rebuild the Tower of Babel, because the Americans are so good at skyscrapers." Pertinax in the Echo de Paris remarks that "the Chester program is only a means of getting rid of the concessions granted to the French...
...first is a semi-official "warning " issued from the Quai d'Orsay (French State Department): "The French Government will consider as unfriendly and even hostile any effort at mediation. It is determined to take no account of soundings which may be made by intermediaries, and it will examine German propositions only if directly and officially communicated...