Word: quai
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...view of many, this far-flung organization works admirably. A top diplomat at Paris' Quai d'Orsay says: "The State Department functions better than the Quai. It is a well-oiled machine. The right things go to the right places." U.S. consulates are widely praised for courtesy and efficiency. "If you want to know what's going on anywhere in Africa, ask at the American embassy," says a veteran European newsman who covers that continent. The American Legion, once prone to find State "soft on Communism," last year investigated and concluded that "the nation can place much...
...their gunsights blackened Roughly speaking, ten wars are in progress throughout the world this week. They range from petty conflicts in which the strategic weapon is a poisoned arrow to major air raids in which jet B-52s bomb jungle hideaways. As a leading French strategist on the Quai d'Orsay puts it: "There is no longer such a thing as war and peace, just different levels of confrontation...
...entente was not all that cordiale ("I suppose we will have to learn zee bar-bee-cue," quipped Nicole). For more than a year there has been gossip that the Alphands would be leaving Washington. Now called home to Paris to take over the No. 2 post in the Quai d'Orsay under Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville, Alphand makes way in Washington for a Frenchman who might better understand "zee bar-bee-cue"-possibly the Quai's political section chief, Charles Lucet, who has 16 years' diplomatic service...
...French evidently think that even token participation in SEATO could be construed as support for U.S. policies in Viet Nam. The Quai d'Orsay therefore announced that it would send only an "observer" to next week's annual SEATO meeting in London, though all other members are sending foreign ministers. "Deplorable," declared the conference's British hosts, who had been flattering themselves that their understanding with De Gaulle was rather good since Harold Wilson's visit to Paris four weeks ago, and had hoped that the French might underwrite a condemnation of Indonesian aggression in Malaysia...
...American misadventure, suggests in this one that the colony was probably doomed from the start. The Czars never opened the new land to immigration. Alaska was run as a fur business, whose board members voted themselves handsome dividends and occupied a luxurious building on St. Petersburg's Moika Quai...