". . . And so, Messieurs, between a pear and some cheese, we have just laid the little cornerstone of a European federation; discreetly, between a pear and some cheese—which doesn't, you know, diminish at all the importance of the event."
Thus with a twinkle and a contented gastronomic sigh, Prime Minister Aristide Briand of France spoke to correspondents in Geneva last week, after a luncheon sure to be recorded as historic.
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