Word: malraux
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Interrogated by a "priest" while lying bleeding on the floor of a hotel, Malraux still had the strength to engage him in a theological argument over St. Augustine; the man's ignorance of philosophy convinced Malraux that he was no priest but an S.S. officer seeking information. The Germans also tried standing him up against a wall and telling him he was to be executed. Malraux wheeled around to face death. The Germans did not fire...
...French regular army commander if there was anything his guerrillas could do in an impending attack on Dannemarie, the colonel said yes, could he find some young fellow to blow up the locomotive of a Nazi armored train stationed there. "I'll do it if you like," said Malraux...
...Malraux became Minister of Information in the brief Provisional government of General Charles de Gaulle. When De Gaulle retired in disgust, Malraux retired with him, disillusioned with the inefficiency of France's bureaucracy. "To know how foul it really is," said Malraux, "one must be in it, one must be married to it, and be frustrated by it as a man is by a wife with whom he is hopelessly coupled...
...Gaullist Adventure. Many of his admirers could not understand why the former Communist sympathizer turned to Gaullism, overleaping all the moderate positions in between. Many put it down to a Malrauvian need for heroes. Malraux himself insists: "It is not I who have changed, but events...
...alliance with De Gaulle was more natural than might appear. Both men-the devout Catholic De Gaulle, the devout humanist Malraux-were deeply conscious of the need for a new mission for France; both were deeply disillusioned by the powerlessness of the French parliamentarianism which had supinely handed over power to a Pétain, and was now supine before the challenge of liberation. While De Gaulle brooded in the background, Malraux was the most eloquent voice of the Gaullist R.P.F...