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In his exhibition takes its title from a fictitious proverb with a strangely persistent history. It was probably first mentioned in print in a March 1936 article in The Yorkshire Post, a local English newspaper. The article reported on a speech made to the Birmingham Unionist Association by the British MP Sir Austen Chamberlain, who addressed the serious threat to Europe’s collective security posed by the move earlier that month of German troops into the Rhineland. “We move from one crisis to another”, Chamberlain declared in his speech. “We suffer one disturbance and shock after another.” To …