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...house of the frantic governor and install himself in a hotel before moving on, probably to a resort in the French Pyrenees. There, the broad-minded French indicated, the 26 remaining concubines will be allowed to rejoin the bereft ex-Sultan. "We are adhering to our principles," explained a Quai d'Orsay spokesman. "He is in exile with all the honors due his rank...
...German shore. Vice Chancellor Franz Blücher flatly accused the Saar's French bosses of "political murder." From the French bank came shouts of rage. "The Germans are up to their old tricks of 1938, when they accused the Poles of similar atrocities," snapped an unforgiving Quai d'Orsay staffer...
...largest military coalition in history cannot command (and win) without political maneuvering, and the officer charged with transforming an international paper army into reality cannot do that job, as Eisenhower did, without learning a great deal about the political passions of Capitol Hill (or Whitehall or the Quai d'Orsay...
...eyed cupids that support the baroque ceiling of the Quai d'Orsay's famed Clock Room have seen some sights in their time. In 1928, they looked down as diplomats, in high hope of a better world, signed the Kellogg peace pact, forever outlawing war. In 1938, they saw Hitler's envoys make their cynical pledge of peace with France. Last week, the cupids watched over another scene of hope; the Foreign Ministers of France, Italy, West Germany and Benelux were signing the Treaty Establishing the European Defense Community, the military equivalent of the Schuman coal...
...signing the NATO guarantee." Italy, Luxembourg and Holland followed. "Put some light on De Gasperi," shouted a cameraman, and there was light. After half-an-hour's scribbling, the ink was dry; so were the ministers. Arm in arm they marched out of the chamber to sample the Quai d'Orsay's champagne. On the E-shaped table, done up in red tape and sealing wax, they left the hopeful blueprints for a new Europe...