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5658783
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Drawings / paintings
Title
The persecution continues
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Colouring
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36.5 x 29 cm
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Year
1947
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Original editorial cartoon on card in pen, ink and crayon, 1947, syndicated to a number of newspapers, shows ‘US-antis’ whipping the ‘Stratton Bill to admit homeless DPs’ out of the hand of the Statue of Liberty. The whip represents ‘unfounded slanders’, ‘fanatic snobbery’ and ‘blind prejudices’. Congressman William G. Stratton, Republican of Illinois, introduced a Bill on 1 April 1947 to admit Displaced Persons, many being held in camps in Europe, in a number equivalent to a part of the total quota numbers unused during the war years. Under the Stratton Bill up to 400,000 displaced persons of all faiths would have been permitted admission into the United States. However, lingering anti-immigration sentiment and anti-Semitism resulted in the defeat of the Bill. Card size 36.5 x 29 cm (14.5 x 11 inch), image size 28 x 27 cm, signed lower right with nine zeros as underline. Caption in pencil in upper border, in very good condition.
