Word: dove
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Forth from the Paris conference flew Picasso's dove, to breed wondrously. The dove was plastered on posters, stamped on ash trays and handkerchiefs, brooches and earrings. Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Poland and Russia put it on postage stamps. It was stamped on tickets to rallies in France and on banners to fly over the rallies; in Belgium, they made it out of spaghetti and macaroni for sale to peace-lovers. On U.S. automobiles in France, little dove stickers appeared, with the words "American, go home. We want peace...
...They beg him for a bird, big and strong, to carry a little girl to Wonderland. "To Wonderland?" asks Picasso, rubbing his chin. "What's wrong with this little girl?" "She's afraid of war," whispers the wind. Whereupon Picasso seizes his pen and draws a white dove...
...miracle, the dove rises from the paper and joins the moonbeam and the wind in flight back to the little girl's room. The little girl sits on the dove's back and off they fly, across the Alps, the Caucasus, the Urals. "Voici l'immense Union Soviétique. A great, a very great country," says the dove. "Yes, a big country full of song," agrees the little girl. "Here they work and sing," says the dove. "And now, look here, the Himalaya, and down there is China." "I hear the singing in China, too," says...
...over their dead mothers' bodies . . ." "Bombs, bombs, that's what you mean," stammers the little girl. But one deep, beautiful voice arises from America, below. "Who is that man singing?" asks the girl. "It is Paul Robeson, one of the greatest singers in the world," says the dove. Finally, the dove and the girl land in Stockholm and in Warsaw, where many other doves arrive, thousands of doves, millions of doves. Like snowflakes they descend from the sky. And the vultures are frightened and are driven back into the land of eternal darkness...
They Cried for Peace. Always, in Communist whimsy and in hard-boiled oration, the dove cried "peace." In eight languages the signs on East Berlin buildings proclaimed: "Peace, Pax, Paix, Paz, Pace, Frieden, Béke, Mir." There were peace days, peace weeks, peace bicycle races, peace dances, peace cigarettes. Japanese could buy a sedative called the Sleep of Peace and enjoy it on a Peace mattress...