Word: quai
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...desires to share in the road's management, and the Russo-Asiatic Bank, the institution which, under an agreement made in 1920, represents Russia's interest in the railway. A proposal to displace the Bank with regard to the railway called forth a protest from Paris. The Quai d'Orsay (French Foreign Office) reminded China that French citizens owned 60% of the bank stock. Japan also viewed with alarm the decision of China to recognize the red republics federated at Moscow...
...QUAI D'ORSAY, French Foreign Office, in an official communique: "The French Government reserves its reply to the allegations of Mr. Lloyd George until it is in possession of the exact text." ... There was concluded no secret compact between M. Clemenceau and Mr. Wilson, and if there were conversations between them during the absence of Mr. Lloyd George, the latter knew of the result as soon as he returned...
...gaillard; the Princes of Wales, who may one day be Edward VIII, is also sympathique. Paris was flattered by his visit, which was taken everywhere to have been "a wise political move." It was hoped that the volume of chilled air between Downing Street in London and the Quai d'Orsay in Paris would be considerably warmed by the Prince's manifest friendship for France...
...German people if a father of a family were not allowed to come back after five years' expulsion from his native country." Dr. von Hoesch, German Chargé d'Affaires in Paris, also defended the return of "little Willy" to the Fatherland to the Quai d'Orsay, French Foreign Office. He pointed out that the principle of granting a passport to the former heir to the Imperial throne had been accepted during October, even by the Socialists, after the Prince had renewed his renunciation of " all his hereditary rights " and promised again to devote himself to agriculture...
...question of disarmament control in Germany that it should be treated as one and the same question. He then proposed the occupation of Hamburg by the British and the occupation of Frankfort, Bremen and Elbesfeld by the French. The occupation of Hamburg scheme was later denied by the Quai d'Orsay...