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5882651
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Title
Stalin greets the UN
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Colouring
Dimensions
56 x 38 cm
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Year
1950
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Original editorial cartoon on card in ink and crayon for the New York Daily Mirror, 1950, shows Soviet leader Stalin, with a figure representing the Communist People’s Republic of China (PRC) in the back seat of his car, driving the wrong way up a one-way street and giving a cheerful greeting to a rather aloof young woman representing the United Nations. On 10 January 1950 the Soviet Union submitted a draft resolution which proposed that the Security Council should decide not to recognize the credentials of the Chinese Nationalists on Formosa/Taiwan in the UN and to exclude their representative Tsiang from the Council. This was the first step in trying to persuade the UN to admit the PRC into the UN instead of Taiwan. The resolution was rejected and shortly afterward the Soviets walked out of the UN in protest. It would not be until 1971 that the PRC would take over the seat of Taiwan in the UN Organization. Stalin is shown here as if he is launching some kind of charm offensive to get his way, but this seems a very unlikely scenario as it was not the way he or the Soviet representatives operated at the UN, or anywhere else for that matter. Card size 56 x 38 cm (22 x 15 inch), image size 38 x 25.5 cm, signed lower right. Age-toning and some staining along part of upper and right-hand border, otherwise in very good condition.