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Furthermore, unlike Hitler and Mussolini who started a disturbance of the peace of Europe by aggressively and forcibly seizing other peoples' territories, Stalin acted only after a general European war had been started by others, and then only took such territories as had formerly been part of tsarist Russia and which he felt were necessary for Russia's self-defense in the face of Hitler's sweeping victories. The sooner the Poles and the Baltic populations reconcile themselves to these stern realities, however cruel for themselves, the better...
...received an answer, but he is convinced that Archbishop Spellman's visit to the Vatican (TIME, Feb. 22) was closely related to his letter. Elated by this success, Dr. Giacobini decided last week to address similar epistles to President Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, offering himself as Mediator for World...
...best known American anti-Fascist painting, the face of Benito Mussolini is a bilious, terrible green. Last week Mussolini probably felt almost as green as Peter Blume had painted him. It was an appropriate week for Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art to buy (price unannounced) Peter Blume's The Eternal City...
When in 1932 Italy celebrated the tenth anniversary of Mussolini's March on Rome, Peter Blume was there. Traveling on a Guggenheim Fellowship, he saw among Rome's ruins many things that stayed with him, from a scowling papier mache image of II Duce to a tawdry effigy of Christ adorned with trinkets by Italy's praying poor. Back in the U.S., Blume spent two years pondering what he had seen, the next three years painting the vivid, swarming detail of The Eternal City with its popeyed Mussolini...
...hammer than any part of a lion." Lenin, Stalin and Timoshenko are brightly starred, with "room still for such names as Sevastopol and Smolensk and Stalingrad." China gets Cygnus (Chiang Kai-shek for Deneb, Confucius for Albireo, etc.). Germany and Japan get nary a one, but Hitler and Mussolini are placed in the constellation Draco (the Snake) renamed The Tyrants. Sirius, brightest star in the sky, falls in the constellation of South Africa and is called Smuts. There are constellations for the arts, science and for children (with stars for Alice and Peter...