Word: quai
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would indicate that she intends to treat it as a fait accompli. France, like the other powers, is not without Chinese interests, in Yunnan, as well as in Indo-China, and any undue increase in Japanese influence could only cause in Japanese influence could only cause uneasiness at the Quai d'Orsay...
Nervous about its effect, Foreign Minister Louis Barthou brought to a cabinet meeting two drafts of a note to be sent to Britain. After heated debate led by Premier Doumergue, a majority of the Cabinet voted for the stronger message,which a Quai d'Orsay spokesman boiled down to a single sentence : "France realizes the gravity of her act, but henceforth France will not disarm to the extent of a single gun as long as Germany continues to rearm." It was necessary for France to repair her military alliances. Rumania, Czechoslovakia, Jugoslavia-the Little Entente-had already approved...
...came a cracker: "These inquiries have allowed us to establish a general basic plan to be undertaken in the near future ... by collaboration with the Associated Press and the Havas news agency. . . . The Quai d'Orsay assures the technical and financial control of this news service...
...nomads")Turkess . . . (stolid hugely faces poke from rags & bags: sullen squat drearily scratching lost ghosts. Men. Grunt nonmen. Their pyramid-of fear, surfaced with asquirm naked babies-does not move. None have any shoes but some are wearing instead baskets, i is smoking). Turk drops coinlesses, a machine spews quai-tickets. Now (baggageladen 2)3 comrades, through despair timidly through confusion through perhaps wearily and through (you cannot turn the wheels of) irrevocable un, move . . . beneath curving steel-and-glass nonroof now finding (asleep, forever-fully)tattered train...
Next Foreign Minister Nicholas Titulescu of Rumania suddenly appeared at the Quai d'Orsay to voice the opposition of France's allies, the Little Entente, to the plan. Said...