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Notes for use at Luncheon given by Metropolitan Art Museum, April 2, 1946.
We have recently emerged from a bitter conflict that long engulfed the larger
nations of the globe. The heroism and sacrifice of men on the fighting lines
and the moral and physical energies of those at home were all devoted to the
single purpose of military victory. Preoccupation in a desperate struggle
for existence left time for little else.
C
Now we enter upon an era of widened opportunity for physical and spiritual
development, united in a determination to establish and maintain a peace in
which the creative and expressive instincts of our people may flourish. The
welcome release from the fears and anxieties of war will, as always, be re-
flected in a resurgence of attention to cultural values.
It may seem strange that a soldier, representative of the science of destrue-
tion, should appear before a body dedicated to the preservation of man's
creative ideals as expressed in art, and should be urging support of the
Metropolitan Museum. Even though we acknowledge that the soldier's true
function is to prevent rather than to wage war, yet his necessary associa-
tion with lethal weapons would seem to imply the existence of an unbridgeable
gulf between his philosophy and that of the artist. Perhaps this is so -
certainly I lay no claim to artistic temperament! But I do know that, for
democracy at least, there always stands beyond the materialism and destruc-
tiveness of war the ideals for which it is fought. Thus, the awful test of
war is primarily a testing of the spirit, and so it is possible for the
fighting man to experience, in war, a definite spiritual growth. But for
simpler reasons than these, I believe that many of our veterans have gained
renewed interest in art and the world of the artist.
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