CONFERENCES: Evil & the Postmaster

As the conference on Danube navigation closed with a Western whimper last week, just about the only thing the U.S. could smile about was a news picture from Belgrade (see cut). It showed Russia's Andrei Vishinsky in earnest conversation with Yugoslavia's Ales Bebler. The naked lady who turns away from M. Vishinsky with chaste horror is Truth Warding Off Evil, by the Croat sculptor, Frano Krshinich.

It was all very well for M. Krshihich (an artist and presumably a dreamer) to try to ward off evil by looking the other way; in practice, that method did not work. The U.S....