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Last week Cousin Joe gave new evidence of spiritual rapprochement with Cousin Bertie: the Daily News borrowed an "interesting and ominous" John T. McCutcheon cartoon from the Tribune; its point: Remember Woodrow Wilson's 1916 campaign promise! Warned Captain...
...fond cousinly gesture the borrowing of John T. McCutcheon's cartoon was significant. Actually Cousin Joe had little need for borrowed isolationist cartooning. The Daily News's own Pulitzer Prizewinning, Kansas-born Cartoonist Clarence Daniel Batchelor had already created the most potent anti-war cartoon of all-the two creepy, skeleton-faced, voluptuous harlots labeled World War II ("Uncle Sap's New Girl Friend") and her fuller-blown mother, World War I (see cuts). Of late these ghoulish temptresses have appeared on Publisher Patterson's editorial page with almost comic-strip frequency-graphically timed to make...
...Tell." On War Department walls last week appeared a cartoon (see cut p. 16), admonishing employes to hold their tongues. It was old, and it was borrowed from the British, whose public information services are worse than the worst in Washington. It was also symptomatic of wishful official thinking in Washington that the best way to dispel confusion is to eliminate information about defense. "Information of value to the enemy" was a phrase heard increasingly often. That legitimate secrets ought to be kept secret, no loyal citizen denied. But the French Army ("best in the world") fell in a cloud...
...January issue, out last week, Scribner's Commentator featured a story by Columnist Hugh Johnson calling for No More Aid to Britain. A cartoon showed Franklin Roosevelt as a hockey goalie leaving his goal undefended to skate on Europe's thin ice. In other issues recently Commentator has denounced Dorothy Thompson, H. V. Kaltenborn (a onetime Commentator editor), Playwright Robert Sherwood, Harvard's President James Bryant Conant, Walter Lippmann, William Allen White, Librarian of Congress Archibald MacLeish, and PM's backer Marshall Field III as "Internationalists" conspiring to force the U. S. into...
Attached is a cartoon clipping from this morning's Tampico El Mundo which illustrates the reaction of some Latin Americans to the re-election of President Roosevelt...