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...severe problem posed by La Gangrène is that, although De Gaulle has succeeded in curbing army excesses in Algeria, French police methods at home in Metropolitan France are still a law unto themselves. In L'Express, Nobel Prizewinning Novelist Francois Mauriac wrote: "De Gaulle, Debré, Michelet are horrified by the idea of torture, as were the Socialists, Radicals and M.R.P.s of the Fourth Republic. But governments pass. The police remain, and governments all have this in common: they cannot do without the police and are scared of displeasing them...
Election to the French Academy is for eternity and its 36 distinguished members are known as the "Immortals." Last week the Immortals were stunned when 72-year-old Novelist Pierre Benoit, an Academy member since 1931, asked to resign. The Academy refused. Said Nobel Prize Author Francois Mauriac: "One does not resign from the Academy. One is immortal for eternity." Benoit, touched by the Academy's refusal but unpersuaded, replied: "I will never again set foot in the Academy. It would really be tactless of me." Benoit had supported the unsuccessful Academy candidacy of Paul Morand, a novelist rejected...
...while Le Repos was in the running for Prix Femina, but the member of the female jury reportedly turned i down because they could not believe ii the alcoholic and amatory prowess of th book's hero as he seduces a young heiress Commented Novelist François Mauriac "It displeases me to play the role of virtuous father. But I ask this question Why should the history of the sex life c this young lady be of particular interest . . .one is conformist today as never before. Apart from sex, no salvation...
...ranging across the political spectrum from T. S. Eliot and E. M. Forster to Bertrand Russell and J. B. Priestley, wired the Soviet Writers' Union not to dishonor the great Russian literary tradition by "victimizing a writer revered by the entire civilized world." In Paris, François Mauriac, Albert Camus and Jules Romains expressed their disgust. The Authors League of America cabled that the U.S. writers most popular in Russia were "those who interpreted life in America most critically." and demanded that Pasternak have the right to express himself with the same "freedom and honesty...
...Gaulle's own greatness lies in his repeated challenge to them to prove their worth. The novelist and polemecist, Francois Mauriac, has well understood the nature of de Gaulle's present effort when he interpreted the General to mean: "When I will no longer be there, I will continue to serve you through the institutions I have given you, and I will protect you, as I have always wanted to, from the misfortunes you bring upon yourselves. For what is true of individuals is also true of nations: their character is their destiny...