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Among modern French journalists and biographers, Andre Maurois has the distinction of being more English than most Englishmen. His real name is Emile Hcrzog. He was born in 1885 in the small French city of Elbeuf, son of a family of textile manufacturers. His father compelled him to manage the family mills despite his early literary ambitions, his youthful mastery of English, his desire to fit into pre-War literary circles in Paris. Assigned to British Headquarters during the War, he wrote Les Silences du Colonel Bramble in 1918, found that his publisher did not believe a novel about...
Readers who note the comments on the English spirit, English genius, character, history which run through Maurois' books may feel that he says things that most Englishmen would like to hear, but which their own writers seldom point out. With a great gift for simplification, Maurois makes complex individuals seem transparent, reduces difficult and obscure periods in their lives, over which scholars still debate, to matter-of-fact and readily understandable situations. In Prophets and Poets he has written of nine English writers, beginning with Kipling and ending with Katherine Mansfield. In an attempt to reveal the underlying philosophy...
...Paris, the result of an exploration he made 45 years ago with Arthur Symons into that remarkable artistic world inhabited by such figures as Mallarmé, Rodin, Verlaine, Huysmans, Edmond de Goncourt. Taine and Renan were then still alive, Zola and Anatole France were prominent figures, but the young Englishmen were most inspired by Verlaine, who greeted them jovially, talked poetry to them, and spent his last two francs to buy them a drink of rum. Readers of From Rousseau to Proust can determine how stimulating these international contacts were from the occasional reminiscences that figure in other essays...
Britain is not to be blamed in retreating from the brave lone stand she has heretofore maintained. Practical Englishmen know well that to hope to end war by economic sanctions as organized by the League is more wishful than realistic. Even if the powers sitting at Geneva were sincere in their present mummery, they would hardly be able to bring Mussolini to his knees. As long as Germany, Japan, and the United States remain beyond the pale, the vows of the world cannot be expressed from Geneva...
Greatest danger of an incident touching off a European war lay in the daily increasing irritability of Englishmen and Italians as their war boats and trade vessels elbowed each other in the Mediterranean. With the tone of reporting an Italian atrocity, the British steamer Cairo City radioed London papers that her flag-salutes to Italian war boats were not being returned "although there is still a rigid rule of the sea requiring the salute...