Soviet peace feelers 

• 1946 
• Milians, Max P. 
• Drawing 
• Historical item 

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Drawings / paintings

Soviet peace feelers

36.5 x 29 cm

1946

Original editorial cartoon on card in pen, ink and crayon, 1946, syndicated to a number of newspapers, shows a Soviet ‘hand’ of friendship in the form of a sharp sickle with blood dripping from it being offered to the ‘west’. While insisting that their intentions were to achieve ‘peace’, the Soviets were acting in aggressive manner, for instance in Eastern Europe, Berlin and Iran. This was the year Churchill used the term ‘Iron Curtain’ for the first time, and from here on the Cold War started to develop in earnest. Card size 36.5 x 29 cm (14 x 11.5 inch), image size 31.5 x 27 cm, signed lower right with nine zeros as underline, in very good condition. Verso: “Steel & coal industry strikes” Original editorial cartoon on card in pen, ink and crayon, 1946, syndicated to a number of newspapers, shows Uncle Sam boasting ‘US employment increase’, although this particular rose cannot disguise ‘unresolved labor-management problems’ and the bomb of ‘steel & coal industry strikes’. The largest strikes in American labour history took place in 1946, and Congress responded to the strike wave in 1947 by passing, over President Truman's veto, the Taft-Hartley Act, restricting the powers and activities of labor unions. Image size 31 x 26 cm, signed lower left with nine zeros as underline. Glue remnants visible along the right-hand side of the drawing, otherwise good condition.