Word: quai
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Congress's appropriation. Because of the U. S. elections they dared not ask for more. Acting Chief Delegate Hugh R. Wilson, Minister to Switzerland, moved the U. S. Delegation offices last week from the sumptuous Hotel des Bergues into a flat just under the attic at No. 33 Quai Woodrow Wilson...
Japan's Backers. Dismayed by the sheer number of its unheeded protests, the U. S. State Department was silent about Japan's land grab in Manchuria last week. Not so the French Foreign Office. Ever so tactfully in their gilded and ornate Quai D'orsay, French undersecretaries assured reporters that "the French Government's reaction, on the whole, is favorable...
...situation is now very different from that of 1921, when Secretary Hughes failed even to acknowledge communications from the Secretary General of the League. In 1922, I remember, an American Minister in Switzerland called me on the telephone in Geneva and asked me to meet him on the Quai outside as he preferred not to be seen in the Secretariat of the League of Nations. We have been represented at many League of Nations conferences in the past two years, even at one session of the Council. Today, we are represented in the League of Nations building by a delegation...
...Nelson Cromwell is known for his snowy chrysanthemum-like hair and the original manner of tying his neckties. He has also the distinction of being the financial angel of the Legion of Honor. Mr. Cromwell built the chevaliers a beautiful little pink marble museum near their palace on the Quai d'Orsay. Commander Cromwell be came a Grand Officer of the Order with a large plaque to pin on his dress coat. Among his other benefactions may be listed the American Braille Press for the blind of which he is founder-president. and the $630,000 which he recently...
...Though he had been forced to hand in his resignation, sick old Aristide Briand clung to his Foreign Office desk at the Quai d'Orsay until the last minute. Premier Laval called personally, begged him to accept an honorary Cabinet post. Brer Briand issued an acid statement: "M. Briand would prefer to study the juridical and diplomatic form in which he might contemplate eventual collaboration...