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...laconic and oracular way merely said: "Soustelle will have a place at my side." But it was not until last week that Soustelle got "his place" at last. As Minister of Information, he will become De Gaulle's official spokesman-a service until recently performed by voluble Novelist André Malraux...
...Spearhead & the Stave. Against this thesis of an officers' conspiracy, pale, intense Gaullist Minister André Malraux pitted an eloquence doomed to be soon silenced. (At week's end, Malraux, although retained in the Cabinet, was relieved of his post as spokesman for the De Gaulle government.) Malraux is the author of some of the most influential French novels of this century (Man's Fate, Man's Hope), an erudite art historian (The Voices of Silence, The Metamorphosis of the Gods), and an old revolutionist who served in the Chinese Civil...
...that France will no longer be the only major nation that has made no real dent in its postwar housing shortage. ¶ Minister of Justice Michel Debré was charged with the task of reorganizing France's hodgepodge judicial structure. ¶ Ministers Louis Jacquinot, Jean Berthoin and André Malraux were ordered to devise a scheme for financing long-range scientific research. ¶ Minister of State Guy Mollet was assigned to head a task force to simplify the structure of French municipal government...
Secretary of State: André Malraux, 56, novelist, art historian, one of France's most brilliant intellectuals. Malraux was a revolutionary in the 19205 and '303 (and relived it in his novels-Man's Fate, Man's Hope), but denounced Communism on the signing of the Nazi-Soviet pact of 1939, fought bravely in the resistance, became so disgusted by parliamentary paralysis after the war that he served six years as a De Gaulle lieutenant, has since concentrated on art and archaeology...
When it appeared in France early this year, the book was a runaway bestseller (65,000 copies sold), generating shock waves of conscience. It was banned within weeks. Four leading men of letters-André Malraux, Roger Martin du Gard, François Mauriac, Jean-Paul Sartre-buried their political differences to dispatch a "solemn petition" to France's President René Coty asking the government to lift the ban on The Question and "condemn unequivocally the use of torture, which brings shame to the cause that it supposedly serves." Still illegal, sales of The Question have since soared...