Word: quai
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Faure had warned Khrushchev that France could not be split off from the Atlantic alliance. But he made no secret of his ambition to take home some achievement to match Mendès-France's, with whom he anticipates a political battle next year. He was impatient with Quai d'Orsay experts. "I use modern formulas that do not correspond to diplomatic traditions," he said expansively. He added privately: "What do my people in the Jura [his home district] know about NATO? But if I tell them that we can build irrigation canals for their vineyards with...
...been impressed by his relaxed manner and self-confidence. Once, referring to Stalin (six months after Stalin's death). Bulganin remarked casually: "He messed everything up." To one veteran U.S. observer, Bulganin seems "reasonable, intelligent and able." "He talks freely about delicate problems," said a Dispatch to the Quai d'Orsay. "He is a master at creating an atmosphere of relaxed tension." Recently, before deciding to go himself to Geneva, Khrushchev remarked at a garden party: "I trust Bulganin. No one has to hover at his elbow...
...democrats in exile. What particularly irritates Franco is the suspicion that France, which supported the Loyalist Republican government, is still giving financial aid to Loyalist exiles, and paying the rent for Republican headquarters in Paris. With each change in French government, the Spanish ambassador has gone across to the Quai d'Orsay to ask that the subsidy, whatever it is, be withdrawn. Recently Franco has found a way to put a real squeeze on the French...
...West's foreign ministers gathered to welcome Germany as the new member of NATO, that feeling had taken on a compelling political impetus. The U.S.'s John Foster Dulles was soon closeted with Britain's Harold Macmillan and France's Antoine Pinay in the Quai d'Orsay, in a meeting later joined by Germany's Konrad Adenauer...
...familiar to the semi-destitute outcasts of royalty, forgotten Zizi Lambrino reared her son Mircea and dreamed of the day when he might be declared Carol's rightful heir. Mircea learned artistic bookbinding and made his modest way by peddling his skill among the booksellers along Paris' Quai de la Tournelle. In 1952 Zizi died. A year later, Carol followed her to the grave. Their son Mircea, 35, was left alone with a baby son, who was, like Mircea, the relic of an impulsive and broken marriage...