Guernica Reproduction Covered at UN
NEW YORK.- The "Guernica" work by Pablo Picasso at the entrance of the
Security Council of the United Nations has been covered with a curtain.
The reason for covering this work is that this is the place where
diplomats make statements to the press and have this work as the
background. The Picasso work features the horrors of war. On January 27 a
large blue curtain was placed to cover the work.
Fred Eckhard, press secretary of the U.N. said: "It is an inappropriate
background for the cameras." He was questioned as to why the work had been
covered.
A diplomat stated that it would not be an appropriate background if the
ambassador of the United States at the U.N. John Negroponte, or Powell,
talk about war surrounded with women, children and animals shouting with
horror and showing the suffering of the bombings.
This work is a reproduction of the Guernica that was donated by Nelson A.
Rockefeller to the U.N. in 1985.
-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Pearlman [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 13 February 2003 07:22
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: laureates against the war
Very practical reasoning! Thanks for the insight, Wayne.
==Dan
At 01:54 PM 02/13/2003 +0900, you wrote:
>In answer to Dan's question, Here's what i think most Japanese think about
N
>Korea's nukes. Allow me the first person plural here.
>
>We sympathize with the suffering people, but it's like dealing with the US.
>It's not
>the people we got to deal with but the pathologicals in the military-state
>apparatus.
>
>It makes us nervous that their nukes point this way. They don't have the
>longrange muscle to hit the US, so if they go berserk we're the likely
>first target. We wish there was big oil under N Korea so the US would get
>interested.
>
>We're also pissed off that N Korea snatched our citizens back in the 70s,
>and even
>now when they admit it won't give 'em all back.
>
>And we could do without spyships disguised as off-course fishing boats.
>
>Wayne Pounds
>Tokyo
>
>
>Daniel Pearlman wrote:
>
> > Wayne,
> > How do the Japanese feel about N. Korea's nukes?
> > ==Dan P
> >
> > At 08:00 AM 02/12/2003 +0900, you wrote:
> > >Remembering the recent comments on Billy Collins, I offer the list this
> > >link to an Associated Press article called "US Poet LaureateOpposes War
> > >with Iraq." In England, meanwhile, poet laureate Andrew Motion has
> > >written an anti-war poem that cites "elections, money, empire, oil" as
> > >the motivation for war.
> > >
> > >
> > >http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0206-07.htm
> > >
> > >I found this article linked at
> > >http://www.poetsagainstthewar.org/default.htm
> > >
> > >Wayne Pounds
> > >Tokyo
> >
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Dan Pearlman's home page:
http://pages.zdnet.com/danpearl/danpearlman/
My new fiction collection, THE BEST-KNOWN MAN IN THE WORLD AND OTHER
MISFITS, may be ordered online at http://www.aardwolfpress.com/
"Perfectly-crafted gems": Jack Dann, Nebula & World Fantasy Award winner
Director, Council for the Literature of the Fantastic:
http://www.uri.edu/artsci/english/clf/
OFFICE:
Department of English
University of Rhode Island
Kingston, RI 02881
Tel.: 401 874-4659
Fax: (253) 681-8518
email: [log in to unmask]
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