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...Promise. When France fell to the Nazis, Camus joined the Resistance in North Africa, eventually made his way to Paris. There, while working for his publisher, Gaston Gallimard, he secretly edited the Resistance newspaper Combat. On the day of liberation, Combat appeared with a Page One editorial. "Out of this dread childbirth," Camus had written, "a revolution is being born. The Paris that fights tonight intends to command tomorrow, not for power but for justice, not for politics but morality." For millions, that was the promise of the peace...
...after the Communist uprising in 1927. Between revolutions, he wandered the world, from India to Japan, from Central Asia to the U.S., to see and judge the masterpieces of the world's oldest cultures, put his findings into art books which he edited for the famed Paris publishers Gallimard...
...bloody years, 1925-27, when he was Commissioner of Propaganda for the government of the South, helped stage the Canton insurrection. He could supply at least the scenery for The Royal Way from his archeological explorations in Cambodia and Siam. A publisher's assistant (house of Gallimard), he takes adventurous holidays, last year flew across the Great Arabian Desert and reported the discovery of the legendary city of Sheba (TIME, March...
...Molinier. Malraux made international headlines when he flew across the Great Arabian Desert and re ported the discovery of what he thought was the legendary city of Sheba. with 20 towers still standing (TIME. March 19). At present Author Malraux lives in Paris, working for the publishing house of Gallimard. His first book (Limes en Papier} written when he was 20. was poetic prose. His five subsequent books have all been based on his experience in the Orient. One of them. The Conquerors, was translated, published in the U. S. (1929). Restless. fair-skinned, well-built, with large...