. Russian portraits . looked uponme a little resentfully as a bourgeoise. I believethat he always asks people, if he does not knowthem, about their work and their origin, andmakes up his mind about them accordingly. Ishowed him photographs of some of my busts andalso of Victory. He was emphatic in not likingthe Victory, his point being that I had madeit too beautiful. I protested that the sacrifice involved madeVictory beautiful, but he would not agree. Thatis the fault of bourgeois art, it always beautifies. I looked at him fiercely. Do you accuse meof bourgeois art ? I accuse you! he answere
. Russian portraits . looked uponme a little resentfully as a bourgeoise. I believethat he always asks people, if he does not knowthem, about their work and their origin, andmakes up his mind about them accordingly. Ishowed him photographs of some of my busts andalso of Victory. He was emphatic in not likingthe Victory, his point being that I had madeit too beautiful. I protested that the sacrifice involved madeVictory beautiful, but he would not agree. Thatis the fault of bourgeois art, it always beautifies. I looked at him fiercely. Do you accuse meof bourgeois art ? I accuse you! he answered, then held upthe photograph of Dicks bust. I do not accuseyou of embellishing this, but I pray you not toembellish me. He then looked at Winston. Is that Churchillhimself ? You have embellished him. Heseemed to have this on the brain. I said: Give me a message to take back toWinston. He answered: I have already sent him amessage through the Delegation, and he answeredit not directly, but through a bitter newspaperH2. SPASSKY ENTRANCE TOTHE KREMLIN. p. 99. RUSSIAN PORTRAITS article, in which he said I was a most horriblecreature, and that our army was an army ofpuces. How you say puces in English ? Youknow the French puces ? Yes, that is it, anarmy of fleas. I did not mind what he said ;I was glad. It showed that my message to himhad angered him. When will Peace come to Russia ? Will aGeneral Election bring it ? I asked. He said : There is no further news of aGeneral Election, but if Lloyd George asks for anElection it will be on anti-Bolshevism, and he maywin. The Capitalists, the Court, and the Military,all are behind him and Churchill. I asked him if he were not mistaken in hisestimate of the power and popularity of Winston,and the importance and influence of the Court. He got fiery. It is an intellectual bourgeoispose to say that the King does not count. Hecounts very much. He is the head of the is the bourgeois figurehead, and he representsa great deal, and Church
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