Funny How Different People See Things 

• 1962 
• Morris, John Milt 
• Drawing 
• Historical item 

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Drawings / paintings

Funny How Different People See Things

41 x 37.5 cm

1962

Original editorial cartoon on card in ink and crayon for the Associated Press, 1962, shows Uncle Sam and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev painting an artist’s model in the form of an angel representing ‘disarmament and peace’. Uncle Sam’s rendition is realistic while that of Khrushchev is highly abstract, much to the frustration of Uncle Sam. At the Geneva Disarmament Conference held in March 1962 the main issue of contention in efforts to reach an East-West agreement banning nuclear tests was the question of international inspections, which the Soviet delegation at the conference rejected, declaring that the only basis for a nuclear test-ban treaty was a Soviet draft calling for national rather than international policing. The conference failed to reach any agreement and at the end of March President Kennedy said that efforts to reach an East-West agreement banning nuclear tests appeared to have reached ‘a real impasse’ as a result of the Soviet refusal to accept international inspection and controls. He reaffirmed his position that if no effective agreement were reached by late April, the United States would follow the Russians and resume atmospheric tests. This together with the tense situation in Berlin and the brewing Cuba crisis would make 1962 a dangerous year. Framed and matted for an overall size of 41 x 37.5 cm (14.75 x 16.25 inch), image size 31 x 28 cm, signed lower left, caption pasted on in upper border. Adhered to verso of the frame is a clipping from The Reporter Dispatch, White Plains, N.Y., dated Thursday, March 22, 1962 featuring the cartoon as it ran in this paper. Also included is an obituary for Morris. In very good condition.