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DICKENS - André Maurois - Harper...
...André Maurois, like a week-end guest who hopes to be asked again, is unfailingly gracious about England and the English. This half-loaf appreciation of Dickens is sliced thin, á L'Anglais, buttered on the right side. But U. S. readers who like whole-wheat will raise an eyebrow at the very first slice: "In every English-speaking country Dickens is still the great popular writer." André ' whole case for Dickens is an argumentum ad hominem. Perhaps Dickens had a streak of Pecksniff in his character but, asks Maurois, "Who hasn...
...ROYAL WAY-André Malraux- Smith & Haas...
...that he had the nation with him and against the politicians on his project of reforming the Constitution. For days delegations had been arriving to tell Great Little Gaston how right he had been in his radio appeals a la Roosevelt. Wrote that hard-boiled Paris political observer "Pertinax" (André Geraud): "By his broadcast appeal Doumergue has deeply moved France...
...form a cabinet, the youngest Premier met remarkably few rebuffs. French politicians realized that a prolonged crisis would surely lead to riots. M. Laval, of course, was already in the Foreign Office and Premier Flandin was glad enough to leave his old chief there. His other old chief, M. André Tardieu, had just had an operation. 'T go into retirement with M. Doumergue," he observed dramatically when M. Flandin offered him a portfolio. But M. Tardieu hinted that he will be all right in a few weeks, by which time there may be another Cabinet crisis...