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...invasion, turning his attention southward (see p. 27, p. 29}, Britain might not be so likely to win as if he made the attempt now. The British were confident last week as they feared they might not be next spring. Ole Bill, Captain Bruce Bairnsfather's famous cartoon philosopher-private, recently said: "It'd be just like that Hitler to play us a dirty trick, like not trying to invade...
Louis Raemaekers lives modestly in Manhattan with a few of his possessions. He had sent to the U. S. some 600 cartoons-he contributed about 350 a year to the Amsterdam Telegraaf - forwarded for safekeeping to Herbert Hoover's war library at Stanford University. For two months during the summer Raemaekers drew a cartoon a week for the New York Herald Tribune. Now he works for the afternoon tabloid PM. During World War I, Raemaekers made two cartoons a day, saw his work blown up in posters as big as 15 by 20 yards, was so powerful that...
...night. The Herald, which was bombed by a Zeppelin in World War I, was hit again. Minister for Aircraft Production Lord Beaverbrook's Standard, in Shoe Lane just off Fleet Street, was flooded when a tank on its roof burst. Next morning the Standard carried a David Low cartoon showing Goring and Goebbels peddling a newspaper called Der Berlin Liar with headlines: "British Press Wiped Out"-and regarding with pained surprise a Cockney newsboy hawking: "Bomb severely damaged in Shoe Lane...
...naval bases in the Western Hemisphere. Last week the Tribune, in its first edition, ran a 166-line editorial, We Get the Bases, pointing to the President's deal as a triumph for the Tribune. On page 1 the Tribune printed a caustic cartoon titled Nearer and Nearer the Brink, condemning the deal as an act of war (see cut, p. 77). In later editions the cartoon disappeared, was replaced by another kidding Franklin Roosevelt's trip to Tennessee. In its third edition the Tribune slashed its long editorial to a mild, 27-line cackle of pleasure...
...Baffled again was Editor Martin until he managed to calm one reader down, demanded: "What on earth is wrong now?" Said his caller: "Hold that picture of Roosevelt up to the light." Editor Martin did. The swastika which appeared on the Roosevelt face showed through from an anti-Nazi cartoon on the reverse side of the page...