Mexican Missionaries

There was a time when Italy led the world in matters of art. But last week Italy gratefully accepted the Mexican Government's offer to lend-lease its three master muralists (Rivera, Orozco, Siqueiros). The big three will help convert Italy's gaudy Mussolini Era civic architecture to the uses of democracy. Their assignment: to furbish "Forum Mussolini," the Duce's red brick and white marble memorial to himself on the banks of the Tiber (now a U.S. Army rest camp), where young Fascists used to flock to learn fencing and fawning.

Mexico's left-wing moderns, who rode to fame in the turbulent revolutionary days of Mexico's Obregon Regime (1920-24), jumped at the chance to participate as painters, for the second time in their lives, in a political renaissance.

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