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...thorough realist, Sir Stafford would be the last man in the world to pat himself on the back. For months his job has been to sit outside the Kremlin walls, waiting for a break between Germany and Russia, based on their mutual fear. The actual negotiation was done by Hitler's invading armies...
...scorn on Germany's partner: "This whipped jackal, Mussolini, who to save his own skin made all Italy a vassal State of Hitler's Empire, comes frisking up at the side of the German tiger with yelpings not only of appetite . . . but even of triumph." A realist as always when he meets reversals, Churchill minced no words in describing Britain's peril. "You know I never try to make out that defeats are victories. . . . It is certain that fresh dangers . . . may come upon us in the Mediterranean...
...damned old shovel. He is master of the sprightly truculence peculiar to journalistic generals plus a felicity of invective all his own. But Hell-Bent for War is remarkably restrained. It is the first full-length statement of his position by an isolationist who insists he is only a realist, and whose verbal hammer-throwing at the New Deal and those who believe that the U.S. should enter World War II before it is too late, daily delights or exasperates millions of readers of his syndicated column...
Crotchety Realist Leigh blames modern art on the Algerian War (1830-47), when the French aristocrats began drinking absinthe, and the "lower classes," with their vulgar ideas, began to dominate the art world. Says he: "It is not how a picture is painted that matters, it is what you paint. Some modern artists have sunk to imbecility, not pitiable imbecility but vicious imbecility." At his pet abomination, WPA art, he snorts: "The worst thing the Government could have done for the nation was to allow these thousands of dub painters to put those frightful abortions called murals all over...
...year-old Phil Dike, son of a California real-estate promoter, started his art career by imitating his grandmother, who used to paint reproductions of picture postcards. At 21, he won a medal in a local watercolor exhibition, shipped off to Manhattan, where he studied with oldtime U. S. Realist George Luks. After a spell in Paris and Italy, mostly sitting in cafés and talking, Dike returned to Southern California, settled down to teaching...