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6850813
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Bz-z-z-!
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38 x 28 cm
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1929
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Original editorial cartoon on card in ink and crayon for the St. Louis Star Times, 1929, shows the US Congress as a waiter attempting a balancing act with various dishes, the ‘cruiser building program’ and ‘Kellogg anti-war pact’, while being distracted by a flying insect in the form of an aeroplane representing ‘the future of aircraft in war’. Great efforts were made during the 1920s by the peace movement in America and elsewhere to avoid a repetition of the catastrophe of the 1914-18 war. The climax of these efforts was the Kellogg-Briand Pact, a treaty renouncing war as an instrument of national policy and urging peaceful means for the settlement of international disputes, originally signed in 1928 by 15 nations, later joined by 49 others. Frank B. Kellogg, US Secretary of State, believed that he had been pressured into the agreement by the peace movement and considered it naive and worthless, even though he received the Nobel peace price the following year for his work. And only a month after it had approved the Kellogg-Briand Pact, the Senate passed legislation for the construction of 15 new naval cruisers, suggesting perhaps that there were many who had little faith in a paper agreement to outlaw war. Also by this time foreign offices and war ministries around the world were beginning to anticipate the development of aircraft for strategic bombing purposes, although it would be the next decade before this would become a reality. Card size 38 x 28 cm (15 x 11 inch), image size 25 x 21 cm, signed lower right with caption in pencil in upper border. Some age toning, otherwise in very good condition.