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...declaring that juridically there was nothing wrong about the German Army's entering Austria at the "invitation" of the Austrian Government. This was, they said, no violation of international law and it was "not invasion"-an opinion which sounded like the Wilhelmstrasse but was actually that of the Quai d'Orsay...
...wanted in return for their support penetrated via new French Premier Chau-temps even as far as London. His Majesty's Government were extremely near the point of extending "belligerent rights" to the Spanish Rightists last week (see p. 24), when Downing Street received frantic word from the Quai d'Orsay that Premier Chautemps, in order to get his Cabinet over its first rocks in the Chamber, must be able to tell French Communists that he was successfully staving off this British gesture toward Franco. In this appeal Chautemps & Bonnet-who was on the telephone to London almost...
France, now thoroughly alarmed, pulled every possible wire to keep Spain's fire from spreading. The Quai d'Orsay hastily drew up a strict agreement of neutrality, sent it to Great Britain, Germany, Italy, Russia, Portugal, Czechoslovakia, Belgium, The Netherlands. Italy, Russia and Germany hedged elaborately. But with anxious Britain backing France, the neutrality agreement was perfunctorily accepted "in principle" by almost every European State...
...England!" Prone is Léon Blum to surround himself with yes-men and of these the most modest is Radical Socialist Yvon Delbos. When offered the Foreign Ministry he cried, "Oh, that is far too great an office for me!" and last week was frankly floundering at the Quai d'Orsay. Since the new Premier, too, has no experience in foreign affairs, M. Blum and M. Delbos hit on the idea of calling to Paris last week all the principal European envoys of France, to ask each of them how things were in the country to which...
Reporters see this little man in horn spectacles waddle through the great iron gates of the Quai d'Orsay and up to the Premier's state apartments several times each week. Although known principally today as Paris' No. 1 Astrologer, M. Privat has behind him many years of working journalism. He is the author of a fat stack of works comprising his investigations of celebrated judicial cases, exotic crimes and the lives of statesmen he knew as a reporter. The incredible report which much of Paris now avidly believes is that Astrologer Privat assists Premier Laval from...