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...policy recommendations by mail, sold himself as a potential diplomat with flair rather than experience, was pushed for Paris by Kennedy's Georgetown friend and neighbor. Bill Walton. Kennedy's design may be to match one obstreperous general with another (Gavin knows De Gaulle slightly), but the Quai d'Orsay was discreetly baffled by the appointment. So, less discreetly, were State Department regulars. Since Paris is one of the most expensive American embassies to maintain. Gavin will be the principal beneficiary of the increased expenses to be allotted to nonwealthy ambassadors...
...Regrettable incident," the Quai d'Orsai conceded. But why had the Ilyushin failed to respond to radio and visual urgings to get back on proper course? Reason for the intercept and the warning shots across the bow was that the Ilyushin had strayed inside what the French have marked off as their 80-mile "zone of responsibility" off Algeria. There the embattled French, trying to prevent infiltration of arms and men to the Algerian rebels, insist on the reserve right to control air and sea traffic. Furthermore, said the French, custom had been violated by the Russians' failure...
...Shaughnessy, then chief of the political section of the U.S. Embassy in Bonn. It counseled the backing of neofascist groups in West Germany that were known to be plumping for the return of Alsace-Lorraine to the fatherland. Though false, the "document" created real dismay at the Quai d'Orsai...
Nevertheless, the Quai d'Orsay was skeptical of a 43-year-old investment banker who was innocent of diplomatic experience. France was in a state of upheaval: Indo-China was falling, Algeria was on fire, and Suez was threatening. Dillon handled himself with unspectacular competence, won French government gratitude at a parlous moment by proclaiming U.S. support of France's "liberal" aims in Algeria...
Saint-John Perse is the pen name of Alexis Saint-Léger Léger, 73, a diplomat who wrote poetry in secret after his day's work at the Quai d'Orsay in Paris, where he served for years as Secretary-General of the French Foreign Ministry. ''Is this true, Leger, that, as people say, you write poetry in your spare time?" asked Aristide Briand of his faithful assistant. "It is." replied the writer firmly, "an imposture...