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André Malraux, leftist French novelist (Man's Fate, Man's Hope}, veteran of the Spanish Civil War and the 1940 Battle of France, was still in the thick of it - leading his own 4,000-man F.F.I, army in the fighting near Strasbourg. Ranked a lieutenant colonel in the French Army, 49-year-old Malraux, who was once punch-drunk with politics, is now soberly concentrating on military matters: "I cannot see why we French must be so occupied with politics while the Germans are still on French soil." Marlene Dietrich, wearing a fleece-lined...
...André Malraux (Man's Hope; Man's Fate), radical novelist, wrote one book (published in Switzerland as Les Noyers de l'Altembourg), lived with the Maquis and F.F.I., became a colonel. Wounded, captured, liberated in time's nick during the invasion, thin, nervy Malraux is now fighting at the front. ¶ Jean Cocteau, famed Surrealist specialist in films and plays, had trouble when collaborationists released rats and tear gas in the theater where one of his plays was put on; they also punched his nose when he refused to salute a pro-German parade...
André Malraux, 49-year-old revolutionary French novelist (Man's Fate, Man's Hope), International Brigade air squadron leader in the Spanish Civil War, tank corps veteran of the 1940 Battle of France, reported killed by the Nazis, turned up again as leader of 1,000 Maquis in the Limoges district. He had been captured by the Gestapo, freed by a patriot raid, and served as a liaison officer between the F.F.I, and the British...
...high with sorrows that they overflowed. The scene of the poem might be Paris, with its boulevards and iron-shuttered windows; it might be Berlin or Budapest or Shanghai (the fact happens to be that I wrote it after reading Malraux's novel, Man's Fate, about the Shanghai rebellion of 1927). There are some American details, but the scene was not meant to be and could not have been the United States. Thank God, there hasn't been a revolution here, or the sacrifice of millions of lives. No blood has flowed at home, only printer...
...Come No See. The lavish, profiteering drama of the International Settlement was ending. But outside the Settlement's barbed-wire fences there was a Shanghai that would remain much the same - the teeming, filthy, odorous native city of 3,500,000 Chinese, the Shanghai described by André Malraux...