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no serious attempt to deny it, Venus de Milo was suffering from that a large Italian expeditionary an "excess of nudity.” The poor force has newly landed in Spain, dear has now been arrayed in a There had been no Italian land-kimono, and the Grecian face of ings of any size for some months, the armless beauty will now and the Italian troops already in peep out over the world above Spain were, for the most part, that delightful, dress which the kept in the back areas or at the Japanese know how to wear so bases. Italian intervention wag well. But, in this matter of the chiefly taking the form of in-nude in art, peace hath her vic- tense aerial warfare, including tories no less renowned than war, attacks on British merchantmen. for it is on record that a local But during the last few weeks all hotel some years ago designed a the Italian forces in Spain, in-grill room to be decorated with a cluding the expeditionary force number of murals in which the that landed recently, have been artist was to depict a substantial in action. Italian intervention number of nudes in all manner of has therefore attained a greater terpsichorean antics. What hap- volume and intensity than at any pened history does not say, but time since the beginning of the when the grill room was opened civil war. The mám reason is it was found that the murals that the Italians, more, perhaps, had been strangely altered, and than the Germans, wish to bring that the nudes had been hurried- the war to an end before the closely clothed. If the painting of of the year and are increasing young women in the buff were no their effort so as to break the better than that of the draperies unexpectedly tenacious resistance in which they were ultimately of the loyalists. Also Italy is enshrouded, it is probably just as Sincerely willing indeed, eager well, and might account for the to withdraw her "volunteers", sudden change which was made, from Spain. By reinforcing the for there is nothing to suggest "volunteers" already there and that Shanghai at the time was generally intensifying her inter- overtaken by that modesty which vention she will not only shorten appears to result from a war the war but will be able to make plex. If, during the forthcoming a most impressive withdrawal. season, it is found that the The withdrawal of her "volun-"limbs" of the S.M.C. Orchestra's teers" could begin before the war concert grand piano have been is over, but after she is sure that duly clothed in modest drapes, it the final defeat of the loyalists is will be realised

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