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Actual poster issued by Senator Joe Mccarthy in 1950s, at height of the red scare. All artists were suspect.

Update: apparently from King Leopold to Queen Victoria.

Merel Barends

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LocalStain 10 months ago Reply
Not McCarthy.

'This isn't by Queen Victoria either. It's a garbled paraphrase of a letter written in 1845 by King Leopold of Belgium *to* Queen Victoria: "dealings with artists, for instance, require great prudence; they are acquainted with all classes of society, and for that reason dangerous; they are hardly ever satisfied, and when you have too much to do with them, you are sure to have des ennuis -- Leopold to Victoria, 10 October 1845.'

From here- http://thehollowmansf.blogspot.com/2012... but I am in the process of trying to determine the veracity of that citation as well.
LocalStain 10 months ago Reply
Original text can be found here http://www.scribd.com/doc...
merelbarends 10 months ago Reply
@LocalStain Chapeau. I already suspected it was too good to be true, but I liked it too much to try & debug.
merelbarends 10 months ago Reply
@LocalStain The "classes" part made it suspicious. So oldfashioned & un-American.
waa 10 months ago Reply
Comments even better than the picture.
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