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Some of the nation's best artists, among them Max Weber, Georgia O'Keeffe, Franklin Watkins and Alexander Brook, were not in the show at all. Others were represented badly. Edward Hopper, who finds it almost impossible to paint a dull picture, contributed an old one instead. His Night Conference, like Hirsch's Nine Men, was a standout at last year's Carnegie exhibition and also at the Met. Andrew Wyeth, generally the realest of the young realists, sent a vapid study of a curiously costumed boy on a bicycle adorned with a red, white & blue...
Military victory in Korea by the United Nations forces now seems assured unless Mac Tze Tung's Chinese Communists enter the war. All of the experts feared that war with Mac would be fruitless for both sides and Fairbank and Hopper feel that Chinese entry into the Korea fight is a possibility. Fairbank says there is still a danger of Chinese intervention if U.N. troops cross the 38th parallel. War with Red China, he said, would be a bleeding conflict in which "we could not beat them or they...
...Hopper noted, however, that the Communist propaganda machine which promises immediate economic reforms runs at a tremendous advantage because it has "the ally, poverty." Meanwhile, the Western propaganda machine can spout only abstract concepts such as democracy, freedom, and the hope of material improvement...
...Nehru Program" of removing the economic conditions on which Communism thrives would take 100 years to fulfill, Hopper feels...
Asked where the next Communist outbreak might be expected, Hopper replied that it would "probably come where it is least expected by the West." He said the Korean show was a complete surprise at the time, though is retrospect it should have been obvious. The next move might be similar.M-1