If, in time of peace, our museums and galleries are important to the community, in time of war they are double valuable. For then, when the petty and the trivial fall way and we are face to face with final and lasting values, we... must summon to our defense all our intellectual and spiritual resources. We must guard jealously all we have inherited from a long past, all we are capable of creating in the trying present, and all we are determined to preserve in a foreseeable future.
Art is the imperishable and dynamic expression of these aims. It is, and always has been, the visible evidence of the activity of free minds... Therefore be it resolved:
1) That American museums are prepared to do their utmost in the service of the people of this country during the present conflict.
2) That th... (查看原文)
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