Drop of ruinous paint on Mona Lisa canvas

Fred Levy, Cape Town

Your confliction in the answer is obvious, but far too tinged with your closeness to the subject in this case.

Would a drop of paint on the canvas of the Mona Lisa, ruin it? Most certainly it would.

So, we are left with a defence of a person, and others, who probably found security in their association with a dreadful ideology, and (worse) gave financial support, with full knowledge of an unforgivable and similar, period for Jews in Europe.

It just does not wash.