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...post as spokesman for the De Gaulle government.) Malraux is the author of some of the most influential French novels of this century (Man's Fate, Man's Hope), an erudite art historian (The Voices of Silence, The Metamorphosis of the Gods), and an old revolutionist who served in the Chinese Civil War of 1927 and the Spanish Civil War, still limps from leg wounds suffered during his days as "Colonel Berger" of the World War II French Maquis...
...press conference attended by 600, Old Revolutionist Malraux noted dryly, "The works of Mao Tse-tung are dominated by one political concept: Communism. Those who talk about the group that they call 'the colonels' group' are thinking about a psychological technique without a doctrine...
Under this diffident lawyer's son turned social revolutionist, Great Britain, in its nature at home and its holdings abroad, was profoundly and permanently changed. In six years as postwar Premier, Attlee installed Britain's welfare state and nationalized its basic industries. He, more than any other man, dismantled the British Empire and reforged it as a Commonwealth of equals. It was his personal decisions that gave India, Burma and Ceylon their freedom, and created the nation of Pakistan. Said Pakistan's Foreign Minister Hamidul Huq Choudhury: "His name will be remembered as long as the independence...
Dagger with Talent. Out of his revolutionary adventuring, Malraux forged his novels and his ideas. The 1933 publication of La Condition Humaine (a bestseller in the U.S. under the title Man's Fate) broke upon the intellectual world like a revolutionist's bomb. Its theme was the 1927 revolt of the Chinese Communists in Shanghai, when they tried to wrest the city from foreign control, only to die when Chiang Kai-shek turned on them and bloodily suppressed their strike. Its intellectual revolutionists spoke of revolution as lyrically as a mystical communion, a tragic but glorious experience which...
Said a New York Herald Tribune staffer: "There is a not-so-quiet revolution going on at our paper." The revolutionist: 29-year-old Ogden ("Brownie") Reid Jr., youngest publisher of a big daily in the U.S. and one of the most assured. Only a month ago, when his mother, Helen Rogers Reid, named him president of the paper and his elder brother Whitelaw ("Whitey"), 41, stepped upstairs to be chairman of the board (TIME, April 18), she insisted that her two sons would run the Trib as "a team." But the team plan vanished quickly. From...