Word: malraux
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Figaro said privately. "On est des cocus." (We've been cuckolded.) As for the Louvre's curators, they protested that they had merely accepted the show from Bordeaux, where it was organized by the Gaullist mayor, Jacques Chaban-Delmas, with the blessings of Culture Minister André Malraux. However, one curator admitted: "The first thing I did when I noticed-uh-certain things, was rewrite the catalogue...
Quelle crise! Culture Minister Andre Malraux has conducted a survey that shows that a minimum of 1,500 ateliers must be built by 1973, most of them just to house artists already living in condemned buildings. Since 1963, however, only $400,000 has been budgeted for new studios, and just 92 ateliers have been built. For the next five years, Malraux has only $200,000 a year to spend on artists' housing. Other than that, he can only encourage real estate developers to include low-cost ateliers in their high-cost apartment buildings...
...Ladder. On his return to Peking, Malraux had a long talk with Premier Chou Enlai, followed by a banquet at which Malraux and Chen Yi tossed flowers at each other. Of Red China and France, Malraux said, "It's true that our social systems are different. It is also true that both of us have had to battle against a powerful aggressor who, weapons in hand, came to fight in a place where he shouldn't have been." Malraux may have meant Japan's invasion of China, but Peking was free to interpret his words as meaning...
After the banquet came a three-hour visit with Party Chairman Mao Tse-tung and President Liu Shao-chi. Malraux suddenly produced a letter for Mao from Charles de Gaulle. In Paris no one would say whether the letter was in Malraux's pocket when he left, or had reached him in Peking after he had advised the French embassy that things were going well...
...Malraux did not clarify matters very much when he finally surfaced in Hong Kong last week. Shrugging away questions about his mission, he allowed that France hoped to sponsor a Chinese art exhibition in Paris. Wasn't there more to his trip than that? Well, he had conferred with Mao Tse-tung on "the most important problems of our time, and it was obvious that Chairman Mao had as complete mastery of the situation as ever in his entire life...