Usually you will find this brooch at the Smithsonian National Museum of History. But recently, it exhibited Lalik's Finnish jewelry, glass design and paintings at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in new york.
Lalik made an olive branch brooch around 1906, when these birds were called pigeons. In fact, it was not until June of 19 18 and 12, that is, one month after the end of the initial armistice day, the story of this war became vague in ten years. The "dove" suddenly became a dove of peace, and the olive branch had full significance. It was designed as a perfect symbolic gift for Edith Boleyn Wilson, the wife of President Woodrow Wilson.
The disastrous World War I was declared "the end of the war". The United States intervened to end the war. Now, Wilson has come to Europe and held talks. Everyone hopes to prevent another outbreak. It's hard to imagine the impact of the president's visit today. The First World War, the war of1914-1918, has faded into history, and Wilson's lofty hope for permanent peace now seems either simple or ironic.
In France, four years of brutal destruction still weigh heavily on the land and heart of Europe. Villages were razed to the ground, forests were cut down by the storm of Grenade fragments, hills were razed to the ground, and grasslands were pitted by high explosives.
Our politicians cannot stop this madness. The generals can only suggest sending more troops through the mud and dying in further attacks. It was not until Woodrow Wilson finally marched into the American army and put forward his 14 idealism about European restructuring that hungry and rebellious Germany surrendered four weeks after the armistice.
The Wilson family arrived in Brest on the German liner George Washington, which was detained before the war (to make American tourists feel comfortable). France is crazy. Gunfire roared past in the salute; The band played "The Stars and Stripes" and "La Marseillaise", and a large number of people flocked to the streets of Paris and shouted "Long live!" Piquet, a lanky president in professional clothes, is almost regarded as a war lover and the creator of a new and better world. Everyone likes Edith Wilson with beautiful black hair. His new wife is tall and most described as "fashionable", with a ready-made smile and relaxed charm.
Edith Boleyn galt Wilson-the undeniable "F.F.V" (the first family in Virginia), its roots can be traced back to John Rolf and Indian princess pocahontas-meeting the president and getting married19/kloc. He is a lonely widower and she is a widow. She gave him the care and support he longed for. Their voyage to France at the end of the war looked like a second honeymoon, except that Wilson felt pressure to negotiate a just peace with all those cunning and vengeful European leaders. 65438+February 16, at the De Ville Hotel (City Hall), the President won a gold medal. Edith Wilson pointed out in her diary. . . To my surprise, the MC then turned to me and took out a beautiful Lalik box with a pin made up of six doves. ...
Well, she miscalculated, but this entry expresses her gratitude for this "quite conceited". 19 19, she went to Paris to sign a peace treaty. She told us that I was wearing an unusual dress and "a pin with diamonds and a dove of peace ..."
Lalik's brooch appeared in Seymour Si Tong's portrait completed in 1920. There was an argument and the portrait was never hung in the White House. Maybe it also reminds her of a tragic moment in her life. During World War II, mankind created a strange stepson-the United Nations. Edith Wilson witnessed it with her own eyes. 196 1 year, as a "little old lady" in her eighties, a few months before her death, she sat next to President John F. Kennedy, who signed a bill authorizing the construction of Woodrow Wilson Memorial. He gave her the pen. She accepted it gratefully. "I dare not ask," she said with a smile. They all know it's a lie.