Word: quai
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...With a great show of hustle-bustle Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet received Polish Ambassador Julius Lukasiewicz and French Ambassador to Warsaw Leon Noel. Later he summoned German Ambassador Count Johannes von Welczeck to the Quai d'Orsay, and word was subsequently passed out to the press that M. Bonnet had told Count von Welczeck that France was fully backing her Eastern European ally...
Foreign Office & Quai d'Orsay declared the incident closed. Cracked the Quai d'Orsay: "We do not consider Maitresse Vital space' (lebensraum...
...favoring Cliveden Set. But Russia let it be known that since Russia and Germany have no common borders, the Soviet signature was useless without Poland's, and suggested an anti-Nazi conference. This was apparently too near to definite action for the ever-cautious British. The realistic French Quai d'Orsay looked upon the proposed British declaration as a typical instance of Anglo-Saxon diplomatic piety. French Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet did, however, use the State visit last week of President and Mme Albert Lebrun ("Mr. and Mrs. Brown" to Londoners) as a fit occasion to talk matters...
...engross the two statesmen as the car in which they rode followed the procession. The $7,500.000 jewels meanwhile were whisked quietly to the British Embassy, locked up in the safe. Individual pieces were brought separately by the Scotland Yard detectives to Their Majesties, who lodged on the Quai d'Orsay in the palace of the French Foreign Office. There, the large bed in which small Emperor Napoleon once slept was found just right for tall George VI, but Queen Elizabeth proved too tall to be comfortable in the bed of petite Marie Antoinette and this priceless antique...
China's Ambassador in Paris, Dr. V. K. Wellington Koo last week carried to the Quai d'Orsay a mild reminder that China considered the Paracels part of her territory but added, meaningly, that China did not object to French occupation "for the time being." In Tokyo, smarting Foreign Office officials notified French Ambassador Charles Arséne Henry that "stationing of Annamite troops on the Paracels might lead to misunderstandings between them and Japanese workers on the islands," asked that the troops be withdrawn. The French Ambassador blandly assured them that "the interests of the workers would...