Word: malraux
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Like a German Malraux, but endowed with less literary talent and less luck, he touched all wars, all revolutions, all causes; born a Roman Catholic in 1897, he was by turns a boy soldier in the Kaiser's army, a student Freikorpsmann, i.e., pre-stormtrooper, a follower of the doomed German left, an anti-Hitler refugee in Paris, a political commissar with the Red forces in Spain, a refugee again in Mexico. Now this richly wounded hero of the class war, living in Mexico and blacklisted by both left and right, has returned to haunt an affluent generation that...
Doubts had been with him all along, but as so many Communists have managed to do, he carried them like an unwelcome letter one postpones opening. A particularly doubt-provoking occasion was one he shared with Andre Malraux in Moscow in 1934. At the time, both men were prize exhibits in the Communist cultural front-Malraux, already a rising novelist (Man's Fate) and touring revolutionary. Regler, a noted refugee writer living in Paris (he had fled Germany just after the Nazis seized power in 1933). Cultured Comrades Regler and Malraux had to listen while Maxim Gorky key-noted...
...Malraux whispered to Regler as Gorky droned...
Prado and his wife Clorinda, 54, whom he married two years ago, arrived aboard a special Air France flight, and were met by Culture Minister Andre Malraux, who had delivered France's invitation while touring Latin America last year. Top social event was a state banquet given by De Gaulle at Elysee Palace. Mrs. Prado, superbly gowned, won such compliments as Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville's "You are a real Parisian woman!" She confided that her only worry was "making too many gestures. I don't want to look like a demonstrative South American woman...
...insurgents strengthened their barricaded positions (see below), and echoes of the uprising spread to other Algerian cities. By the time the Cabinet assembled in Paris next afternoon, even De Gaulle seemed hesitant. Uncommunicatively, he listened while one group of ministers headed by Novelist André (Man's Fate) Malraux called for "launching fire'' against the insurgents, and another led by Minister for the Sahara Jacques Soustelle urged negotiations. In the end, all that was decided was to send Debré to Algiers to scout out the situation. Said De Gaulle fatalistically: "This is either the best thing...