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...preparation for the trip (see THE WORLD), the President has read voluminously about China. One book that he publicly praised was Anti-Memoirs, by France's brilliant literary hero Andre Malraux. The President invited Malraux to dine at the White House this week, presumably to draw upon his vast experience of China...
...Earlier Malraux had suggested that Mao Tse-tung's first question to Nixon would concern economic aid from the "richest nation in the world" to one of the poorest. It did not seem like a very plausible prediction about the proud foe of capitalism. But it fitted in with
...Malraux's notion of Mao as expressed in his book. He reminded Malraux both of the old Chinese emperors and "the Old Man of the Mountain." Malraux saw him as a romantic revolutionary talking about the "Sons of the People," much as the old China talked of the "Son of Heaven," yet at the same time as a pragmatist ready to do anything for the greatness of China. "He seems to be struggling simultaneously against the United States, against Russia-and against China," wrote Malraux. As a believer in the revolution, Mao "is more anxious to make China than...
Thousands of avenues and streets, including the famed Place de l'Etoile in Paris, have been renamed in his honor. More than 1,000,000 copies of books about De Gaulle, including Andre Malraux's Fallen Oaks, have been sold. A spectacular called La France de Charles de Gaulle is now being filmed, and an organization has collected his uniforms, watch, pen, cane, képis, infantry saber, manuscripts, speeches and photographs for exhibit. A National Memorial Committee is building a $ 1,000,000, 134-foot-high marble cross of Lorraine at Colombey that will be visible...
...Malraux plunged deep into his writing. He continues to live with the Vilmorin family in the huge manor house and spends much of each day at his desk, working on his books. His name has frequently come up for the Nobel Prize in Literature, but when the 1971 award was announced last month he was passed over once again. Recently, TIME Correspondent Paul Ress paid a visit to Malraux at Verrières. "Malraux was a bit put out that his two cats both climbed onto the interviewer, ignoring him," reported Ress. "Otherwise he was in fine form, talkative...