Word: quai
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...invitation list and France said nothing. Everything was ready for the great ratification meeting. Mr. Kellogg was on the high seas bound for Paris. The whole world was waiting to see whether the unprecedented treaty would actually be signed, when the wireless began to crackle. It was the Quai d'Orsay saying that if France was to sign, Morocco must of course stay at home with her lentils. To save his treaty, to prevent his great effort from being turned into a fiasco, Mr. Kellog consented...
That was all. But the Quai d'Orsay had in its despatch files Mr. Kellogg's consent to do as France wished in regard to Morocco. It was not literally an acknowledgment. But if France chooses to be subtle, as France usually chooses, the U. S. "open door" policy, for North Africa at least, is as good as dropped into the Seine...
Selected as the place to sign was the Clock Hall, on the Quai d'Orsay. Implements selected were the Havre pen, an inkwell once used by Minister to France Benjamin Franklin and French Foreign Minister Comte de Vergennes and a large single sheet of paper...
...Ambassadors' Conference is a meeting, held casually in the Quai d'Orsay, Paris, and presided over by the French Foreign Minister, of the envoys of the principal Allied powers (Britain, Japan, Italy, France). The diplomats act in concert as the executors of the Versailles peace treaty. If one of the other peace treaties is in question, the associated ally concerned also sits in the Conference...
After the German Government had officially protested to the Quai d'Orsay, President Doumergue of France pardoned the six sentenced Germans...