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...demands for restitution will simply be rejected. "It was by no means necessary to transport the artworks to the Soviet Union for conservation," protests Werner Schmidt, general director of the Dresden State Art Collections and chairman of the joint Russo-German commission deliberating on the mutual return of art loot. In 1955, when the Russians returned paintings to the Dresden Gallery (in communist East Germany), they made a huge, face- saving fuss over the allegedly terrible state in which these treasures had been found at the war's end. In fact, Schmidt's sources show, they were in "impeccable condition...
...Army in what she called "an act of heroism." Maybe some of these objects would have been burned to ashes or blown to pieces if they had remained in Germany. And maybe not. Nobody knows, and the question is irrelevant to the morality of keeping war loot...
...pick her teeth with a riding crop. If she has a problem -- and clearly she does -- it's that somehow, characterologically speaking, she doesn't add up. A vigorous advocate of the poor, she devoted much of the '80s, yuppie fashion, to dubious schemes for the accumulation of loot. A feminist, she's been faulted for doing little to advance women's careers in her husband's Administration. Motivated by the noblest intentions no doubt, she nonetheless came up with what was, from almost any ideological perspective, the health- care plan from hell...
Good thing Allen didn't mention the new four-wheel-drive Porsche the studio just bought him. But then, the Disney comptroller can hardly complain. Allen has made a pirate's galleon of loot for the company during a year in which he has pulled off an unheard-of triple play. Home Improvement, his ABC sitcom now in its fourth season, is TV's No. 1-rated show, earning Disney $400 million thus far in the sale of reruns. His jokey autobiographical book, Don't Stand Too Close to a Naked Man, reached No. 1 on the New York Times...
...myriad looted artworks left over from the war, there is only one ethical course open to the Russian authorities: they must honor Russia's signature on the 1954 and 1990 accords and let the works go back to Germany -- on condition that the Germans return a proportionate amount of the things they swiped. It would be intolerable for President Yeltsin to give in to the pressure of the ultranationalists and nostalgic apparatchiks who want to keep the looted art in Russia as "reparations." Theft is theft. But there may be capital to be made from letting...