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Partly as a result of such well-publicized escapades, the congressional traveler nowadays is more likely to head for the Quai d'Orsay than the Folies-Bergère. In 1965 more than 100 Senators and Congressmen-roughly one-fifth of the combined membership-will have traveled outside the country, ranging round the globe from Warsaw to Wellington, Delhi to Danang...
...territory along the Atlantic coast and to take everything west of the Appalachians for itself. It was clear, Jay concluded, that France regarded its alliance with the U.S. as a license to swindle its junior partner-a conclusion powerfully supported, says Historian Morris, by documents preserved in the Quai d'Orsay that spell out a French scheme to split up the 13 states and return some of them to England...
...Nickel, whose sales of $53 million make it the world's third largest producer (after Canada's International Nickel and Falconbridge Nickel) of a scarce, strategically important metal. While the two governments are squabbling over the company's activities, the protagonists range far beyond the Quai d'Orsay and Foggy Bottom. They include Fidel Castro, Mao Tse-tung, former French Premier Rene Mayer and those storied bankers, the Rothschilds...
Galled Gauls. At first it was mainly a case of rear-guard fighting. Professors and newspaper columnists have long defended their language's purity against such ugly expressions as le weekend and le drugstore. With the coming of the Fifth Republic, defense evolved into offense. Next year the Quai d'Orsay will spend $101 million (up 25% since 1964) for the propagation of French culture and language abroad. France pays for the distribution of French books and magazines, provides 13,000 university scholarships for foreign study in France, and supports 32,000 French teachers in former colonies from...
...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...