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Although the security talk is only beginning, its seriousness can be gauged by the fact that Rumania and Czecho-Slovakia were all week in hectic telegraphic communication with the Quai d'Orsay, and the Polish Foreign Minister made a special trip to Paris to influence the French Government against taking any step to terminate the existing treaty of alliance. Meantime, France has apparently to choose between having Britain for an ally or maintaining her treaty relations with the Central European Powers...
...morning hour last week, a crowd collected on the left bank of the Seine, scurried along the Quai d'Orsay, hung about the Ministere des Affairs fitrangeres or French Foreign Office. Up the steps was walking the Marquess of Crewe, British Ambassador to France. "Le voila," cried a voice, choking down a morsel of the yard of bread which he carried under his arm. "C'est le rol George." "Non, non," re- sponded another, "c'est I'ambassadeur britannique." "Je vous dis. ..." The honking of an automobile horn interrupted the incipient altercation...
According to the French Nationalists, Premier Edouard Herriot arose one morning last week, abluted, consumed his coffee and petits-pains, descended to his office in the Quai d'Orsay (French Foreign Office) and there read certain handwriting on the wall: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN...
...Harkness who says little, gives much; to others. Out of the hat came $350,000 and it was forth- with announced that a $500,000 edifice for the American Church would be built on the left bank of the Seine where that river-to be exact, at the Quai d'Orsay-cuts through Paris. The balance is assured because the project has the official approval of the Presbyterian General Assembly. Presbyterian Joseph W. Cochran Jr. is pastor...
...Quai d'Orsay (French Foreign Office) met the Finance Ministers and representatives of the Allied and Associated Powers.** Their task was to decide how the proceeds from the Experts' Plan are to be paid...