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...situation is now very different from that of 1921, when Secretary Hughes failed even to acknowledge communications from the Secretary General of the League. In 1922, I remember, an American Minister in Switzerland called me on the telephone in Geneva and asked me to meet him on the Quai outside as he preferred not to be seen in the Secretariat of the League of Nations. We have been represented at many League of Nations conferences in the past two years, even at one session of the Council. Today, we are represented in the League of Nations building by a delegation...
...Nelson Cromwell is known for his snowy chrysanthemum-like hair and the original manner of tying his neckties. He has also the distinction of being the financial angel of the Legion of Honor. Mr. Cromwell built the chevaliers a beautiful little pink marble museum near their palace on the Quai d'Orsay. Commander Cromwell be came a Grand Officer of the Order with a large plaque to pin on his dress coat. Among his other benefactions may be listed the American Braille Press for the blind of which he is founder-president. and the $630,000 which he recently...
...Though he had been forced to hand in his resignation, sick old Aristide Briand clung to his Foreign Office desk at the Quai d'Orsay until the last minute. Premier Laval called personally, begged him to accept an honorary Cabinet post. Brer Briand issued an acid statement: "M. Briand would prefer to study the juridical and diplomatic form in which he might contemplate eventual collaboration...
Jugoslavia is one of France's firmest allies, one of her greatest debtors. Last May French bankers lent Jugoslavia $42,000,000. Within the past two or three months King Alexander has sought another loan. French bankers, listening to promptings from the Quai d'Orsay. replied that the efficacy of the large, well-paid Jugoslavian army was seriously damaged by Croat and Slovene plottings, that the dictatorship must be ended in order to bring these recalcitrants into line before the money bags jingled again. President Thomas Masaryk and Foreign Minister Edouard Benes of Czechoslovakia, another of France...
Newshawks hovered about the Quai d'Orsay last week trying to find an official who would talk. Was there a Franco-Russian neutrality treaty under consideration at the Foreign Office? Had it been signed...