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...occasion of Morrison's wrath was an innocuous-looking cartoon whose bite was in its caption, "The price of petrol has been increased by one penny" (implying that British seamen were risking their lives to fatten the big corporations). As supporting evidence for his charge, Morrison quoted a paragraph from a Mirror editorial: "The accepted tip for Army leadership would, in plain words, be this: All who aspire to mislead the other in war should be brass-buttoned boneheads, socially prejudiced, arrogant and fussy. A tendency to heart disease, apoplexy, diabetes and high blood pressure is desirable...
...What is the Government so worried about?" was the typical public reaction. The Telegraph (which for some months has succeeded the Times as Tory spokesman) said that the Mirror's cartoon and Cassandra's jobs "come under the head of irresponsible wrecking of morale." But the rest of the British press, from the Conservative Times to the Laborite Herald, sided with the Mirror against Morrison...
...daily readers were informed that Churchill remains in power "notwithstanding his incompetence because he has succeeded in dragging the United States into England's European entanglements. . . ." The British were denounced for enslaving India. But, as if taking it all back, the Hearst-papers ran a cartoon depicting Churchill's speech as the tourniquet on a British arm bleeding from wounds labeled "Nazi Fleet Escape" and "Singapore." Another cartoon pictured Uncle Sam with a gas mask labeled "Unity" while poison gas labeled "Distrust in Our Allies" swirls up from a cesspool marked "Berlin and Tokio...
...Reverend Mr. Francis B. Sayre, Jr. of Christ Church and John T. Dunlop, faculty instructor in Economics. A motion picture, "America's Call to Arms", and a news reel of Pearl Harbor will be shown, while Donald Duck will make his plea for generosity through Walt Disney's latest cartoon "The New Spirit...
...days after the cartoon appeared, the Tribune printed, under a Washington dateline, a report of a conversation between Secretary Knox and China's T. V. Soong. Said the dispatch: "In an effort to cheer up the Chinese statesman, Knox patted him on the back and said, 'That's all right, T. V., we'll lick those yellow devils...