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Between 1923 and 1927 Malraux shuttled back & forth between Paris and the Far East, published a magazine in Saïgon, helped natives get out newspapers the Government suppressed. At 24 he was associate secretary general of the Kuomintang for Cochin-China. At 25 he was a member of the Committee of Twelve (Chiang Kai-shek was another member) which directed the Canton insurrection during the Chinese revolution, Malraux's post being propaganda commissioner for the key provinces of Kwangsi and Kwangtung...
...sold badly. Living with his wife and two servants in a little apartment on the Rue du Bac - four rooms filled with Khmer statuary, Oriental books and hand-painted Persian linen panels on the walls - Malraux remained as secretive in Paris as he had been in Saïgon, met Indo-Chinese conspirators, Chinese revolutionists in his office, had so few contacts with the French literary world that even his closest friends did not know where he lived. The Conquerors was followed by a mediocre adventure story laid in Indo-China, The Royal Way. In 1933 his wife, who translates...
...spread. He was then 23 and amenable to military service, like every young Frenchman after the Franco-German war (1870-71). He went into the French navy, as a doctor. Then he was posted with French Colonial troops in Indo-China, where he founded the Pasteur Institute of Saïgon. Later he was to found an anti-tuberculosis dispensary at Lille, in honor of Pierre Paul Émile Roux, present director of the Pasteur Institute of Paris (in which Dr. Calmette is the senior professor of microbiology and assistant director) and to become director of the Pasteur Institute at Lille...
...Mathematical Conference. An Approximate Method for Constructing a Regular Inscribed n-gon. Mr. H. Raymond.--Elementary Mathematics: How may they be made more Profitable for the Pupil? Professor Osgood. Sever...
...Mathematical Conference. An Approximate Method for Constructing a Regular Inscribed n-gon. Mr. H. Raymond--Elementary Mathematics: How may they be made more Profitable for the Pupil? Professor Osgood. Sever...