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...high point came at the Quai d'Orsay when Evita watched stout, perspiring Argentine Ambassador Julio Victorica Roca sign a French-Argentine commercial treaty granting France a loan of 600,000,000 pesos ($150,750,000). It would mean a lot more wheat. It would mean, too, more beef. One French commentator quipped unkindly: "Madame Peron will be made palatable to the French workers and peasants by being dressed as a piece of Argentine frozen beef...
Down on the Quai d'Orsay, the men of 16 nations looked at the world and labored to save something of it. If they had drawn pictures of what the world looked like to them, the pictures would not have been happy. Not far away, in the dowdy Luxembourg Museum, their grey thoughts were contradicted by 1,500 colorful pictures...
...Quai d'Orsay, the Salon de l'Horloge was being readied for the new conference. It was expected to take only a few days to establish six international commissions, which would survey Europe's needs by Sept. 1. Complained Jules, the bent, silver-haired Quai d'Orsay usher: "Things never used to move so fast around here. Now they ask me to get the Salon de l'Horloge ready for next Saturday, and cannot even tell me how many nations will be there. You understand, we cannot have any empty chairs around the conference table...
...Krim got a hero's welcome in Cairo, where Farouk also protects the white-bearded ex-Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin el-Husseini, and exiled Nationalist Leader Habib Bourgiba of Tunisia. But there was consternation in Paris. The Quai d'Orsay called El-Krim's action "contrary to the traditions of honor that are those of Moroccans of his rank...
Soragna stepped into his black Packard, rode to the Quai d'Orsay and through the iron gates to the French Foreign Ministry. The diplomats of the victorious Allies were assembled there in the graceful old Salon de 1'Horloge, with its five big windows overlooking the murky Seine, where in 1856 the Crimean War had come to an end, where Clemenceau had ratified the Treaty of Versailles, and where the Kellogg-Briand pact to outlaw war had been signed...