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Ever since the discredited story of Germans cutting off the hands of Belgian children in World War I, U.S. citizens have viewed atrocity stories with a skepticism which does them credit. Last week the reports of the Communist atrocities in Korea were a reminder of an almost-forgotten atrocity, the Katyn Forest massacre, which is now under investigation by a committee of the U.S. Congress...
...College d'Europe is operated in Belgium under the auspices of the Council of Europe, an independent organization directed by Paul Henri Spaak, Belgian Foreign Minister...
...keen to see credit go where credit is due, may I point out that the Modern Museum and the Institute have been associated in this undertaking, but that the Institute was wholly responsible for organizing the show, and that its director, James S. Plaut, has conducted negotiations with the Belgian government ever since 1947 to win permission for most of Ensor's important works ... to come to the U.S. for the first time...
...realize it at the moment but ... I was [then] on the slippery road of public life." Out of that grew Belgian Relief, and out of that the great Hoover relief & reconstruction program after the war. Refusing always to take a penny for salary or expenses, he fed and helped mend the lives of millions of Europeans, fought the European Allies' attempts to use food as a political lever (Winston Churchill's Admiralty strongly suggested to the Foreign Office that Hoover was spying for the Germans). Before Americans had come to know the stolid, moonfaced man in the high...
Ensor's pictures helped set off detonations all over Europe. "I indicated all the modern experiments," he boasted. "When I look at my drawings of 1877 I find cubist angles, futurist explosions, impressionist flakings, dada knights and constructivist structures." Some Ensor followers: Swiss Paul Klee, Russian Marc Chagall, Belgian Paul Delvaux...