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...Minister of the Interior, to whom all French police are responsible, from 1912 through the War until 1920, he served as Governor-General of Algeria for four years, then was given the difficult task of succeeding France's late great colonial administrator, bristle-topped Marshal Louis Hubert Lyautey, as Resident General of Morocco. He did well enough in the four years he held the post to win him the task he was faced with last week, the most serious crisis French Morocco has seen since the time of Abd-el-Krim...
...LYAUTEY - André Maurois - Appleton...
...letters such as John Drinkwater writes a flattering biography of such a tycoon as Carl Laemmle (TIME, May 4), angels weep, men laugh knowingly. When famed and popular Author André Maurois writes a no less flattering account of his still-extant compatriot, Marshal of France Hubert Lyautey, angels may control themselves but men will exchange speculative glances. There is no comparison between the two books, as jobs, nor between the two men who form their subjects. But after reading Lyautey and remembering Ariel, you cannot help feeling that this horn-toot by André Maurois is unfortunate...
...novels and he admits that "at heart, the novel appeals to me much more than biography. It is terribly difficult to invest real life with any kind of unity and beauty. . . . Life is complicated. It is not simple enough." Echoing critics might apply the same criticism to Maurois' Lyautey: might add that Maurois has told much of Lyautey's achievements, little of the simple facts of his life. Other (translated) books: Ariel: The Life of Shelley, Byron, The Life of Disraeli, Aspects of Biography, Voyage to the Island of the Articoles, The Weigher of Souls (TIME...
...doorstep? Had he considered the possible consequences? Premier Laval was polite. He had considered. . . . Mais non. Without political guarantees from Germany, there was nothing more he could do. Ambassador von Hoesch left and Premier Laval had another, slightly sinister interview with two other gentlemen: Marshals P�tain and Lyautey, commanders of the French Army...