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Probability is that German production is nowhere near its potential peak right now. Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of planes flown in Poland had to be overhauled, taking men off production. And lessons in Poland and the West are doubtless being incorporated in new designs, for which production will wait. Here Designer Willy Messerschmitt comes in, if he hasn't gone...
...each nation had to decide whether or not to keep its individual East Indian possessions on the basis of its isolated value to the national economy, the West would doubtless leave the East. But the imperial nations must keep an eye on each other...
What Picasso's effect on the future will be, no one yet can say. Doubtless he is content to have provided so many possible breaks with the past. "In the old days," he told a disciple in 1935, "pictures went forward toward completion by stages. Every day brought something new. A picture used to be a sum of additions. In my case a picture is a sum of destructions. I do a picture-then I destroy it. In the end, though, nothing is lost: the red I took away from one place turns up somewhere else...
...France, and to write in French. His novels are disturbing, as distinguished, and as subtly disciplined as the dreams they resemble. Last week he set beside them selections from a journal (1928-39) in the editing of which his chief concern has been "to interest a reader whom doubtless I shall never meet."† As frequently happens in the handling of serious work in the U. S., his publishers tried by various jacket ruses to disguise the book as a popular commodity; but from its opening pages onward it steadily gave them...
...Texaco and Socony-Vacuum the Barco oil is welcome. Both sell overseas (there is a 21? tariff on oil imports to the U. S.) and neither has enough oil for its distribution system. In a warring world they will doubtless find buyers for their Colombian oil, but may bring it to the U. S. to be refined. Last week old Virgilio Barco was many years in his grave, but his son Jorge (pronounced Horkhay) Barco, in Cúcuta, had himself a few drinks as the royalties began to accumulate...