[R-G] UN hides "Guernica" painting: too awkward for warmongers

[DavidMcR at aol.com]

In a message dated 2/3/03 12:14:48 PM Eastern Standard Time, Antarcticu 
writes:

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 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 appropriate
 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.
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