ART AND WAR
BRITISH AND GERMAN DISPLAYS. MUNICH, July 27. Doctor Hess opened an art exhibition, in which pictures depict the Polish campaign, the expolits of the German Air Force, and Norwegian scenery. Doctor Goebbels,, in a speech, said that art penetrated even to pillboxes on the West Front reminding the soldiers of the life they were defending, and to which they would return after victory. RUGBY Juy 27.
In a new war section of the British exhibit at the New York World Fair there will be four paintings specially executed by leading British artists ilustrating the embarkation at Dunkirk. One panel is of the army beginning to retreat to the coast. In the second, troops are waiting on the beach, while in the third they are being ferried cut by small craft of every kind. The fourth panel is devoted to the great work of the R.A.F. ih< taking heavy toll of attacking German aiferaft.
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Grey River Argus, 29 July 1940, Page 8
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156ART AND WAR Grey River Argus, 29 July 1940, Page 8
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