De GAULLE IN INSTANT BIOGRAPHY:

...services for his country of which none sharp eye in appraising fates of others With these words I have hinted at of his compatriots was capable, and finally caught up with him, fortified by the central project of Tales from while Mr...

...Crozier dent of the Fifth Republic than he Commonweal: 113 liquidated the remains of the pre-war consequences of de Gaulle's foreign politically, of Bonhoeffer and Berrigan French colonial empire...

...Both Third World while at the same time during the decade of the 1960s the ac- involve a radical reversal of ordinary, ending the French Army's threat of celerations of history overtook and de- customary values and ways of living, civil war in connection with the Al- stroyed him...

...de Gaulle emerges in this instant biog- knowledgeable are brought low while "I've come back ten years too late," raphy as an essentially tragic figure...

...It appears within four years of instant historian accepts, as an occupa- De Gaulle made no mistake, in 1946, de Gaulle's death, thus qualifying as in- tional hazard, the tendency of history when he turned over the Fourth French stant biography...

...formative years as an officer in the zier devotes to de Gaulle's career be- Having spent the late spring, summer, French Army...

...to reverse itself...

...Cro- President Coty and other leaders of the apprenticeship from informal home zier applies to de Gaulle's transcendent Fourth Republic to preside over the education, formal instruction at a Jesuit role as the liberator of France does not peaceful liquidation of their regime preparatory school in Belgium, attend- match his shorter and clearer treatment and to install, in its place, a Fifth Reance at the Saint Cyr Military Academy, of de Gaulle's first forty years...

...History's us, via the fairy-tales, to come back had transcended himself and performed ironies for which de Gaulle had such a to the Gospel...

...As he himself that they distract from the human ele- 1946...

...Or of theology at Vanderbilt Divinity School, send your check to Pentalic ton and Simone Weil...

...Thirty years on, his own rhetoric failed him...

...But the man of Russia, Britain and the United States, that this "theology" is not self-evident 1940 had become the man of 1958, in the Common Market and the United in the fairy-tales...

...St., New York, N.Y...

...In 1920, he served under reflects the chaos it describes...

...sooner had he set himself up as PresiGeneral Weygand at the Battle of War- Throughout the book Mr...

...In other words, the fairy-tale ROSEMARY HAUGHTON concentrates on "natural" human life The fountain pen -its depths and mysteries-while the that never went Seabury, $6.95 Gospel goes further, showing how out of style the natural man or woman is redeemed...

...In ele- with the fantasy works of that extragant all-black or two-tone ordinary group of Englishmen- REVIEWERS black and green...

...Crozier may tend to under- the accelerations of history which he Eternity: "fairy tales can open our estimate these unique services, he has had chosen to ignore...

...As Churchill always does not want...

...But that same ac- and a half years between the fall of done...

...tions," "an illusionist or magician, pace of events has compelled more and The next three hundred pages of his adept at creating a sense of achievemore journalists to write more and book Mr...

...In 1961 he boasted, "I of instant history...

...If I were to "place" it, I supber...

...Sustained by Churchill's faith and explained: "Cunning must be used to ment or obscure it...

...nity is surely one of her most interesting found distinction underlies much of (Now available in America...

...to call for revision in their turn...

...Large visible ink cham- books...

...But it's more is the author of Literature and the ChrisCorporation, 132 West 22nd complicated still since Tales from Eter- tian Life...

...His pub- take another thirty years for the re- simple truth that history in the twenlisher describes this volume as "the appraisals of some of his wartime critics tieth century moves at accelerating first complete biography" of de Gaulle...

...turn to the more interesting question French Community while five others Because de Gaulle always acted as if of its own contribution...

...to accept the invitation extended by minating de Gaulle's long and varied The detailed treatment that Mr...

...her reading is from connection with the French colonial Nations...

...He must project a public to death...

...about fairy-tales...

...Brian Crozier-born his own, de Gaulle transcended himself make people believe that one is what in Australia and educated in France- as the physical embodiment of an im- one is not, that one wants what one has poured forth more than his share mortal France...

...A very interesting of 1940...

...State color and nib prefer- nity is not a fairy-tale, but a book KRISTINE M. ROSENTHAL teaches in the ence...

...The Pelikan 120 is the Rosemary Haughton is a very inter- traditional nature-grace language, but great classic fountain pen that ancient and, to my mind, profrom Germany, long a favor- esting theologian and Tales from Eterite of European pen purists...

...But in the end, even writer for the London Economist, unique, historic role...

...But the instant biog- Republic to the same "regime of poliMr...

...A consultant and field coordinator for the AN Jelikan 120 the fantasy and mystical writers, the Day Care Study, she is the mother of extremist stand, both personally and three...

...of Victory (Simon & Schuster...

...He also displayed wisyears of de Gaulle's life...

...Only $7.50 at artist ma- cal tradition where the main concern SALLIE TeSELLE, an assistant professor terial and pen shops as well is "spiritual direction"-Thomas Meras college book stores...

...Crozier devotes the first 108 of rapher must cope with more than an ticians" that had nibbled the Third Rehis book's 686 pages to the first forty occupational hazard...

...He depicts de Gaulle as Scribners, $12.50 tank commander, winning a brigadier "a peerless showman and myth-maker," general's two stars and appointment by "a holy monster or magician who tranInstant history is one thing, instant Premier Reynaud to accompany a scends normal capacities and ambibiography another...

...The best ing the Algerian War by granting troops to thirty-two months as a pris- that can be said of his effort is that it Algeria its independence...

...He also traces these disasters a perspective, a Christian perspective, empire, and the man of 1962, in con- to the premises that de Gaulle learned and what this perspective does is help nection with Algeria...

...But the Gospel are strangely similar...

...5 April 1974: 114...

...And the public with a Presidential regime, and spanning his first twenty-one final two hundred pages that Mr...

...Here is biog- complete and credible human being, not dom and restraint in waiting until 1958 raphy at its best, summarizing and illu- an abstract historical process...

...Again de Gaulle from his wartime experiences...

...Her assumpchose to remain Overseas Territories of France enjoyed honorary superpower tion, which initially I rejected but the French Republic...

...in 1923 Marshal Petain endorsed recognizes, respects, and accepts de BRIAN CROZIER his heretical views on offensive mobile Gaulle's addiction to paradox, irony, warfare which he applied in 1940 as a even cynicism...

...The speed...

...As of the mid-1970s, and in both of them the powerful and gerian settlement...

...For the humble and simple persevere to de Gaulle confided to his doctor in 1958 Mr...

...I'm twenty years too old to in his policies toward Germany and thesis, though Ms...

...BOOKS De GAULLE IN INSTANT BIOGRAPHY QUINCY HOWE De Gaulle saw...

...The accelerating special mission to England in June...

...Convenient screw- pose it belongs, in terms of sensibility, 00000 0090 plunger filling mechanism...

...During and since knew and as Roosevelt could never un- myself shall bring Communism to the Second World War he has served as derstand, de Gaulle could not have France, to avoid Communism and its foreign correspondent and editorial claimed less without abandoning his totalitarianism...

...minds to the human, and make us found it impossible, in his chosen role able to hear more sharply the demand of instant biographer, to appraise the Tales from Eternity: for the transformation of the human The World of Falrytales into its own completeness in Christ" and the Spiritual Search (p...

...Haughton allows face up to destiny...

...Add 50t for handling...

...October and mid-December, 1958, which both de Gaulle and his biographer Having made an effort, then to put twelve former French possessions chose attach prime importance: Europe and the book in some sort of context, let's to accept independence as States of the the Atlantic Community...

...Haughton does not speak in the style...

...De Gaulle had status, he was able to bring off one eventually came to embrace, is that thus carved a special place for France major miracle during the Second World the worlds of the fairy-tale and of among the developing nations of the War and two vital ones afterward...

...SALLIE TESELLE Classics never go out of Ms...

...Macdonald, J. R. R. Tolkien-though commentator for many years, wrote Ashes Also fine, medium and medi- it also has affinities with a more mystium oblique italic nibs...

...Controlled ink flow...

...Crozier devotes to the five ment when nothing, in fact has been more instant history...

...Like his broadcast for the B.B.C., and written some of de Gaulle's wartime pretensions biographer and many of his associates, eight books on contemporary affairs and appear dubious, but it is not going to de Gaulle could never grasp the not so collaborated on three more...

...Between mid- policies on that part of the world to rates high with her...

...But no oner of war...

...moreover, along with sociology department at Brandeis...

...Crozier's final chapters not only the end, in the one case, to winning and to some of his Companions of the stress the unbroken record of diplo- the princess and in the other, to winLiberation he remarked, "I'm the man matic disasters that de Gaulle suffered ning the kingdom...

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...He spent the first two tween 1946 and his death in 1970 dem- and early fall of 1958 installing the years of the First World War fighting onstrates, among other things, that so Fifth Republic in place of the Fourth, on the western front where he was eventful a period and so complex a man de Gaulle required another two years to three times wounded, left for dead at simply do not lend themselves to in- complete the more difficult task of endVerdun, and dragged off by German stant, biographical treatment...

...Among the many paradoxes of celeration compels the biographer- France in June, 1940, to de Gaulle's de Gaulle is that he symbolized for some whether instant or definitive-to pro- resignation as first Premier of the authority and legitimacy and for others ceed more slowly: events happen so fast Fourth French Republic in January, glory and adventure...

...Cro- tailored to fit his own specifications...