Word: quai
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...battles of the Marne and Verdun. The balance of power has shifted since 1914 from Germany to France and England, forever anxious to keep the scales even, is moving further and further from France. But the future of Germany is not being determined by Downing Street or by the Quai d'Orsay, or even by the Wilhelmstrasse, which seems largely powerless in the force of events; it is being determined by Munich and Dresden and the cities in the Ruhr and the Rhineland...
Lord Crewe, British Ambassador to France, protested to the Quai d'Orsay (French Foreign Office) against a certain scene in a new revue at the Perchoir Theatre, Paris. The scene ridiculed Britain's attitude on reparations in unparliamentary language and accused her of acting from sheer cupidity and of forgetting for what purpose the War had been fought...
This genial little Frenchman from the Midi goes where he likes, even into Soviet Russia, says what he thinks, does as he pleases. He is a thorn in the side of the Quai d'Orsay...
...Embassy is about to move from 5 Rue de Chaillot, near the Etoile on the right bank of the Seine, to the Hotel Princesse de la Tour d'Auvergne, in the proximity of the Quai d'Orsay, French Foreign Office, on the left bank. The Chancellery will remain provisionally at the Rue de Chaillot...
...Balfour or Lloyd George his seat appeared to be the head of the table. To such languorous notes as Peace was piping from its drowsy Valerian hillock Mr. Sullivan added a knowing and a star-spanGled obbligato. He was, in fact, closer to what was happening upon the shifty Quai D'Orsay than were several of the involved prime ministers. We met him one afternoon in the Rue de Rivoli, walking with Baron Sonnino and Wellington Koo. Arthur Krock, of The Louisville Times, was with us and he paused to speak to Mr. Sullivan and the others. ' Have...