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...Hurry. Next day, Dulles called at the Quai d'Orsay, spent half an hour with Bidault in his private office, prodding him to action on EDC (see below), then went upstairs to the tapestry-hung Salon de Beauvais, where the Indo-Chinese experts were waiting. Dulles went directly to the central problem: France's long-standing resistance to "internationalizing" the Indo-Chinese war. its eagerness to control all the talking at Geneva...
...Casablanca, and an investigation has been started. Ben Youssef's implacable Berber enemy, the old Pasha of Marrakech, is supposed to have had a hand in spreading the stories. The French Foreign Office professes to be horrified. Digging up old tales about him at this time, said a Quai d'Orsay spokesman properly, is "not fair play...
...Even in recent years, sleet, ice and blinding fog have brought hazard and death to the competitors. But last week, blessed by the balmiest weather in Rally history, a record percentage of finishers-331 of 363 starters-whizzed through the flag-draped finish gate on Monte Carlo's Quai Albert Premier. The only American entrant, Frederick Cramer, 48, a history professor from Mount Holyoke College, summed up this year's mild competition as "an agreeable hobby for middle-aged persons...
...French have a practical way of changing Presidents. The President-elect, René Coty, will not start his term until Jan. 17. But he has already set up an office in the Elysée Palace (although still living in his apartment on the Quai aux Fleurs), and each day sits himself at a desk to wade through a mountain of documents to acquaint himself with the job he will hold for seven years. But since outgoing President Vincent Auriol is still in office, Coty stays out of sight at all diplomatic ceremonies so no one will be confused...
...Relations between France and Andorra cannot be broken, because Andorra is not a sovereign state," said one Quai d'Orsay official impatiently last week. "One of her co-Princes, the President of France, has now sent a message complaining that the Council of the Valleys has failed to ratify certain French reforms. We are now waiting to hear what Andorra's other co-Prince has to say." The other co-Prince, the Spanish Bishop of Urgel, whose title goes back as far as Auriol's, said nothing. He had only their spiritual welfare at heart, the bishop...