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5658769
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Drawings / paintings
Title
Empty barrels make the loudest noise
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Colouring
Dimensions
36 x 29 cm
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Year
1940
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Original editorial cartoon on card in pen, ink and crayon, 1940, syndicated to a number of newspapers, shows ‘Japan’ in a barrel waving ‘Tripartite Treaty threats’ at Uncle Sam who is apparently too busy with ‘rush(es)’ and ‘security measures’ to pay any attention. The Tripartite Pact was a military alliance between Germany, Italy and Japan signed in September 1940. As the caption suggests, because of the ‘Axis economic position’ the threat from the Axis powers, and Japan in particular, creates a lot of noise but appears to have little substance and is not taken too seriously by the United States (‘Do not disturb’). A year later the USA would discover that the Japanese were not making idle threats. Card size 36 x 29 cm (14 x 11 inch), image size 32 x 26 cm, signed lower right with nine zeros as underline. Caption in pencil in upper border, in very good condition.