Word: cartoon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Admittedly, the French are hard at work on an atomic bomb of their very own, though once they explode it over the Sahara, they won't have it anymore. A cartoon last summer depicted an angular de Gaulle, clad in intrepid explorer togs, leading a safari of equally angular Africans, who carried on their heads a single oversized bomb. The caption read "La France va disposer de la bombe atomique," (France will dispose of the atomic bomb), a direct quotation from a de Gaulle address...
...glimpse of Marianne Moore, the Muse of Brooklyn, looking for all the world like the Good Fairy in a Walt Disney cartoon...
...feast of exhaustive, fulsome and extraordinary detail, including pictures of Mrs. Khrushchev-a woman in whose existence Red papers previously betrayed only a passive interest, or none at all. Last week Pravda (circ. 5,500,000), the official party organ, topped all the sensational journalism by publishing the first cartoon of a Soviet leader ever to appear in the Russian Press...
...done. Let's bury the hatchet together." The art was not homegrown, but imported from a satellite, where it first appeared in the Hungarian newspaper Népszabadsdg (People's Freedom). Taken with the massive, almost Western-style, gaudy coverage of the Khrushchev tour, the cartoon was enough to set observers wondering. After such unexpected treats, would the Russian reader want to go back to the oldtime, unadorned propaganda diet...
...Express cartoon was one of the lowest journalistic blows of the year; historic fact is that it was Pierre Laval's government which condemned De Gaulle to death in absentia after the fall of France in 1940, because of his refusal to collaborate with the Nazis. But low as it was, the cartoon was only a little lower than the run-of-the-mill abuse that London's Fleet Street was directing last week at De Gaulle and Adenauer...