“J. R. Bloch and the film director Louis Daquin received the International Peace Prize. The Stockholm Appeal against Atomic Weapons was launched... and in June l’Humanité claimed that two thousand doctors and students of medicine, as well as fifteen professors from the Collège de France, had pledged their support. The first principle of utility (prestige) was much in evidence, with Joliot-Curie, Eluard, Picasso and Mme Cotton being assigned prominent positions in the Movement. Eluard sent a message to the 1951 Rome Congress: ‘Guerre à la Grèce à la Corée à l’Indochine / Guerre partout où se révoltent les victimes...’ [War on Greece, Korea, Indochina / War wherever the victims revolt]. Less obviously partisan were his lines accompanying a new series of drawings by Picasso, in which the face of a woman merged with the dove of peace: ‘Je connais tous les lieux où la colombe loge / Et le plus naturel est la tête de l’homme’ [I know all the places where the dove lives / And the most natural is the head of man]” (Communism and the French Intellectuals, 1914-1960, by David Caute, p. 189). That referenced Picasso drawing is here used by Colin to announce an exhibition in Paris.
Imp. Mourlot, Paris