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Judge — December 15, 1917 — page 17: what you’re looking at
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This page collects satirical cartoons from Allied newspapers during World War I, mocking Germany and its leadership. **Top left ("True Enough")**: A French cartoon about Von Kuhlmann (German politician) sarcastically noting Germany will never voluntarily return Alsace-Lorraine to France—they'll be taken by force instead. **Center**: A Florence cartoon mocking a new German military decoration bearing the Kaiser's likeness, sarcastically calling it an "Iron Cross" that commemorates his "noble deeds"—implying the Kaiser has done nothing worthy of honor. **Bottom left ("The Treason in Russia")**: References Russia's separate peace treaty with Germany (1918), showing a figure saying "I am with you, heart and soul" before abandoning the Alliance—satirizing Russian betrayal. **Bottom right ("After the Battle of Menin Road")**: A British cartoon of a German soldier reluctantly telling his companion he must leave—dark humor about German casualties and retreat.
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| WAR CARTOONS FROM ABROAD | “Von Kuhimann a raison: jamais nous ne rend: on nous la reprend: “Von Kuhlmann is right: we'll never give up Alsace and Lorraine—they will be taken from us instead."—La Vic- toire (Paris) uita una nuova onorificenza di guerra, cioe: una ‘effige del Kaiser © con i motti dei suoi pid alti A new form of Iron Cross has appeared in Germany. It bears the likeness of the Kaiser and commemorates his noble deeds.—/I 420 (Florence). nTr to in Russia After the Battle of Menin Road The Treason in Russia.—L'sA sino (Rome). Fritz (to Flanders)—I don’t vant to leaf you, but I Uink I haf to go.—Star (London). comicbooks.com