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...example to our own Christian Democrats." France's tabloid Paris-Jour, after rhapsodizing over Jackie Kennedy's French ancestry and artistic leanings, declared with evident approval that she "wishes to admit to the White House the Latin Quarter, the quays of the Seine and Montparnasse." The Quai d'Orsay remembered Kennedy's explosive 1957 speech calling for independence for Algeria...
...elected deputies to the National Assembly in Paris, where they picked up considerable political experience on an international scale-and let a little French culture rub off on them. African army officers were schooled at Saint-Cyr, received commissions in the French Army; apprentice diplomats were trained at the Quai d'Orsay, served as counselors and secretaries in French em bassies around the world...
...assert themselves when De Gaulle proposed that a permanent political consultative body be established within the new six-nation Common Market structure. Fearing this would mean domination by France, Belgium and The Netherlands bluntly vetoed the scheme. "We do not want our country run from the Quai d'Orsay," said one Dutch official...
...France were on the best of terms. "There is and must be a special relationship between our two countries," smiled Selwyn Lloyd, and French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville reciprocated with murmurs of "profound solidarity," as the two sat down for talks in a gilded salon of the Quai d'Orsay. At the Elysée Palace, where Lloyd extended France's President an invitation to visit Britain as a guest of the Queen in April, Charles de Gaulle was notably friendly...
Last week, in the odd way that news is made these days in France, the major French news agency said that France would "strongly support" Spain for membership in NATO, though it would not necessarily nominate it. The dispatch came as something of a surprise to the Quai d'Orsay, where only Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville knew about...