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...impersonate one Kuo Ch'in Wang, a Ch'ing Dynasty prince. After that, it was scarcely surprising to see a ghostly, frozen parade of the glittering imperial robes from the Ch'ing Dynasty courts, 1644 to 1911, which variously seemed to gesture in salute, prayer or mute ritualism. Also displayed were robes of Buddhist and Taoist priests, of devil dancers and court theater performers. So splendid were these vestments that the Metropolitan's Far Eastern Art Curator, Alan Priest, who directed the show, could safely write: "In design, in color, in texture, in execution and conception...
...proof that we cannot afford to leave Italy's domestic affairs entirely to Italy, the dead, of Anzio give mute testimony. Several million fighting Americans around the world are proof that isolation is not only impractical but impossible. ... It is essential that the Allies make every effort to stabilize a world gone mad with war and hate...
Italy had all the chaos necessary to all-out anarchy. It did not have anarchy-yet, but Italians would not stay mute and muddled forever. At some point they would have to make up their minds in which direction they wanted to go. And the way they went would affect all Europe...
...management for the results that they have produced ... to the citizens of Canada for the way they have responded to war loans, Red Cross drives and the many other demands made upon their loyalties and emotions. . . . [Many] have given vast sums of money to back up in a mute way . . . the war effort. ... I am glad that as a soldier I can come home and find my fellow citizens doing a first-class job on their front. It will be something to tell my comrades overseas...
...Some of his troops in Italy already have run into painful decisions on when a shrine ceases to be a shrine and becomes an enemy artillery observation post (see p. 56). When the Allies approach Rome the eyes of the Christian world inevitably will be upon them, asking the mute question whether the city and its priceless antiquities must be left in rubble...