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6180767
Area
Drawings / paintings
Title
Incidentally, whatever happened to the fire department?
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Material
Colouring
Dimensions
42 x 34 cm
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Year
1968
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Original editorial cartoon in ink and crayon on card for Chicago’s American, 1968, shows John Q. Public looking at the ruins of Czechoslovakia and ‘Czech freedom’ and wondering why emergency calls to the ‘UN fire alarm’ have had no effect. When Warsaw Pact troops entered Czechoslovakia in August 1968 to put an end to the “Prague Spring”, there was condemnation from the west and in the United Nations, but there was never the slightest possibility of the United States or the United Nations undertaking armed intervention on behalf of the Czechoslovaks, and even the debate in the United Nations quickly fizzled out. Card size 42 x 34 cm (16 x 13 inch), image size 37 x 30 cm, signed and dated lower right, caption in ink in upper border. In very good condition.