Word: malraux
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...weeks ago, the executive committee of the R.P.F. held the most fateful meeting in its brief history. Most of the twelve men were smoking and the air was a thick blue haze. De Gaulle smokes like a chimney in moments of stress; so do his political theorist, Novelist Andre Malraux (Man's Fate, Man's Hope} , and his chief administrator, swarthy, bespectacled Jacques Soustelle. Charles de Gaulle said, "Messieurs, je vous écoute" (Gentlemen, I am listening...
...prestige and its future by putting up candidates in the October municipal elections? Ten of the twelve spoke against it as premature. The movement, they said, was not sufficiently organized, candidates for all municipalities could not be found in time, a defeat at the polls would be fatal. Malraux proposed a compromise: an R.P.F. slate in two cities only, Paris and Algiers. Then the eleven lieutenants looked at the tall, slow-moving, impassive man who had galvanized and symbolized France's will to live through her wartime travail. He thanked them, flicked ashes from his blue suit, ended...
...R.P.F. was mobilized. To what extent, therefore, would De Gaulle view the municipal voting as a mandate? "Faster Than I Thought." Gaullist hot heads urged the dreamy, inscrutable General to seize power at once. But he dislikes coups d'état. His top political adviser, Novelist André Malraux, advised prudence and the General favors prudence...
...Struggle with Disaster. Malraux today is a man with his mind made up, but he is more nervous than ever. His face twitches as he talks. He walks stiffly because of a leg wound he received fighting in the underground. To get across his Gaullist message to the French people, Malraux works daily from 7 a.m. till dinner as De Gaulle's unofficial public relations counsel ("his left-hand man," say friends). In his bright, modernistic apartment at the edge of Paris' Bois de Boulogne, he is entrenched behind a plain wooden table in which he keeps...
...Malraux insists: "It is not I who have evolved, but events." He is indignant over charges that De Gaulle is against republican liberties. He cries: "There are 70,000 adherents to De Gaulle's Rassemblement du Peuple Français from the Gironde Department alone. Do you think there are 70,000 fascists in the Gironde...