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Show Stolen Art Found On U. S. Army Yall Old Masters, Loot of Nazis, Hang in Office. BERLIN. Loot sleuths have found six valuable paintings, stolen from the Netherlands by Nazis, right in the middle of American military government headquarters, where they were decorating the offices of-fices of Gen. Lucius D. Clay and his deputy military governor, Gen. Frank A. Keating. Slightly red in the face, American military government issued a news release explaining that the paintings paint-ings were bought in good faith from a German firm of interior decorators decora-tors in Berlin for 66,400 marks ($6,640). The German decorators, Horn brothers, explained that they had brought them from the Roomerbrad hotel at Badenweiler, Baden, in the French zone. There would, indeed, have been seven paintings on headquarters walls, the official release acknowledged, acknowl-edged, but one was destroyed in a fire at the German decorator's warehouse. This was a Damschroe-der Damschroe-der which had been bought by military mili-tary government for 22.600 marks ($2,260). The loot sleuths of military government's gov-ernment's monuments, fine arts and archives section found the pictures pic-tures when they undertook to trace Netherlands restitution claims. The tireless sleuths with bulging portfolios port-folios and art catalogues happened to look on the wall of Clay's office, and found there Van Dyck's "Portrait "Por-trait of a Woman" bought for 9,600 marks. On Keating's adjacent walls were five more paintings, a Bildcrs landscape land-scape (14.200 marks), "Waterfall" by Bassano (10.500 marks). Salva-tor Salva-tor Rosa's 'Two Mounted Riders" and "Battling" (both 9.600 marks), and Canalcttos "Grand Canal" (22.500 marks). The sleuths have traced millions of looted articles, from masterpieces master-pieces to sewing machines, in their I treks across Europe, but none of them cared to talk about this find. One of the underlines of CoL John H. Allen, section chief, indicated that the Dutch might have given some hints as to w here to look. |