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...lined up for the slaughter. Those with steam up, hastily got under way. Taken from the upper works of a tall ship (probably the Dunkerque) the picture (lower right) shows the 26,500-ton battle cruiser Strasbourg, whose stern is visible beyond the bridge of the Provence (in the foreground), starting to pull out. Beyond her, the sister ship of the Provence, the 22,189-ton battleship Bretagne has already been hit by a salvo. A few moments later (upper left) the Strasbourg has got away, and over the stern of the burning Bretagne is visible the airplane tender Commandant...
...authority to call out the National Guard. But that step had not the immediacy of another problem-a problem which his naval and military advisers had on their minds, a problem of which the public had heard little, a problem which events of the week kept shoving into the foreground...
...rising above the stage of self-consciousness. The paintings of Elliott Richardson '41 betray a certain naivete of approach, but they are straightforward and clear. Nothing artificial, nothing that might protrude as a deliberate attempt to gain an effect is present. His handling of the water in the foreground of his large oil is to be admired. Fetcher's watercolors, solid but unpretentious, together with a group of sketches by Porges which are successfully impressionistic and mobile, complete the main body of the exhibit...
...advantage of this system is shown in a map of Long Island which brings into the foreground all of the points which Harrison wishes to emphasize but still shows the rest of the island in its relation to these points...
Also annoyed at the British censorship last week, chiefly for not matching the Nazis in supplying good war photos, was the British weekly magazine Picture Post. In the Nov. 4 issue the magazine shows a blacked-out countryside with a sign hung in the foreground: This is a private war. The War Office, the Admiralty, the Air Ministry and the Ministry of Information are engaged in a war with the Nazis. They are on no account to be disturbed. Nothing is to be photographed. No one is to come near...