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...Fortnight ago Manhattan's Buchholz Gallery opened the first U. S. one-man show of a long-dead Munich painter named Franz Marc. Just before the outbreak of World War I, sad-eyed Franz Marc became disgusted with human beings, decided to spend the rest of his life painting animals. He painted pink and blue horses prancing in quiet landscapes, garish dogs, tigers, monkeys, cows and deer. Germans regarded him as one of the topflight painters of his period. When Painter Marc was mustered off to war, even his animal world seemed too close to the savage world...
...same thing could befall other British cities. It was evidently a blow for which supreme force had been gathered, a try for a knockout before U. S. production should begin to give Britain the edge over Germany. Also it was punishment (the Germans said) for British audacity in bombing Munich last fortnight while Adolf Hitler was there, and for disturbing Russian Premier Molotov's visit with bombs upon Danzig and Berlin, and for again plastering the Krupp works at Essen. The only mystery was why, if the Germans could thus destroy a small city at will, they...
...failure after Munich was less spectacular, but more costly. Not only was war hateful to him, but all military and naval matters were distasteful. When Hitler broke his word of honor as a gentleman and occupied the rest of Czecho-Slovakia, Chamberlain determined that Britain must rearm. But he believed that rearmament would be used for negotiation, not for war. And so the rearmament of Britain was mostly on paper, and Hitler also knew that...
...half of the world that was not Britain's, to save the British Empire. Alert to the danger of war, he made it his policy to avert war at all costs -even, as it turned out, at the cost of making it inevitable. His failure at Munich was a lugubrious failure to realize that Hitler was not an English gentleman. As Alfred Duff Cooper later said, "Chamberlain had never met anybody in Birmingham who in the least resembled Adolf Hitler...
Young Oskar Graf was neither peasant like his mother nor petty merchant like his father. So he ran away from home to the arty and radical circles of Munich's Bohemia, where "nothing was so taboo as sentimentality," where anarchism, drunkenness and futurism foretold coming decades of disintegration. They came: the World War, the Bavarian Soviet Republic, inflation, hunger, humiliation, the Nazis. Oskar Graf thought more & more of his mother. He identified her with the masses, "the blameless German people . . . already behind the plow, in the workshops, factories, and offices, working as hard as ever, without particularly concerning themselves...