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...room hotel, a shopping center and three floors of parking space, to erect 25 acres of artists' studios. The only question was what kind of art could be produced in the atmosphere of a Left Bank Rockefeller Center. General de Gaulle's artistic czar, Andre Malraux, Minister of State in charge of cultural affairs, gave his approval to the skyscraper. "If we accept the skyscraper, modern architecture will penetrate into Paris," he said. "If modern architecture does not penetrate into Paris, it will not penetrate into France...
First to react to the villa's imminent destruction was France's Cercle d'Etudes Architecturales, which set up a cry of "Save the Savoye," then took the case to famed Art Critic André Malraux, Minister of State in charge of cultural affairs in the De Gaulle government. A storm of protesting cables came from British, Brazilian and U.S. architects, and at week's end the deluge of cables and letters was having its effect. Malraux's ministry announced that the villa would almost certainly be spared. The Ministry of Education was urged...
...oracular way merely said: "Soustelle will have a place at my side." But it was not until last week that Soustelle got "his place" at last. As Minister of Information, he will become De Gaulle's official spokesman-a service until recently performed by voluble Novelist André Malraux...
...counterbalance these moves, De Gaulle made two other appointments to his Cabinet, both regarded as champions of a liberal policy towards Algeria. He also made it clear that André Malraux would still be his chief "minister of new ideas." As for Soustelle himself, he had been given a position where he can announce policy, but presumably not make it. Those who regard De Gaulle as still in control of events, and not their prisoner, were not yet alarmed. As one Gaullist put it: "The purpose of the operation was to deactivate M. Soustelle...
...General's March. Malraux's vision of victory was one calculated to appeal to millions of Frenchmen. But its details evoked black anger among the diehard European ultras of Algeria, determined to maintain their privileged position though the heavens fall. This week, accompanied by Socialist ex-Premier Guy Mollet, the Cabinet minister most hated by the ultras, De Gaulle staked his future-and that of France-on another dramatic trip to Algiers...