Life, 1918-09-26 · page 12 of 33
Life — September 26, 1918 — page 12: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
The main cartoon titled "Getting Her Number" depicts Germany as a skeletal figure desperately trying to extract military intelligence. The accompanying articles "Welcome to Our City" and "Right Kind of Optimism" discuss Allied military prospects and German surrender possibilities during WWI's final stages. The series at bottom, "How Lloyd George Became the British Lion," transforms British Prime Minister David Lloyd George's face progressively into a lion—a symbol of British strength and courage. This appears to celebrate Lloyd George's aggressive war leadership. The overall page conveys American/Allied optimism about victory, mocking German desperation while praising British resolve. The content reflects the magazine's pro-Allied stance during the First World War's conclusion.
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ctual presence of the Allied forces in al, Or if Berlin was cap- German revolutionaries as Petrograd was by Russians, it mi cease to figure as a town the Allies needed to visit. But if the Germans don't capture the Prussian capital the Mlies probably will, Berlin as. the headquarters of the war lords who set the world on fire is a bad risk, and growing daily worse. ES. M. Welcome to Our City Insidious German propaganda, of the sort which wrecked poor Kussi:. and which brought on all but crush ing defea alians last fall, is to be sprung on the world this fall and winter by the Central Powers. —Philadelphia Public Ledger. WV! LCOME, insidious sir Ste right in and sit down in our elce- tric chair specially provided. Make yourself at home. We shall be glad to greet an old friend. We have seen you GETTING HER NUMBER in many forms before, during WRONG NUMBER AGALN!” rious appearances in the State Dep ‘ the Senate, in the halls of finance i captured and Ale it Hi high places. You may se recoy I, and the whole se and fool us a moment, but we ustic editice of German acy shall know you th ¢ quicker than come tumbling down, It seems still a The casualties on the Western job for years, if not impossible ’ nt have sharpened our wits real not he wo t serlin, right in and get what's com nm prese a worth: The objects of may ro. while the going’s It may not he till spring, pletely achieved without that journey . . much sooner, but whenever Bat when things once get moving in a Right Kind of Optimism nd the Hohenzollern war like this they are liable to. mc IRST OFFICER: You attack in fast. and it seems so proper that the the morning. Is everything res at the exercises. crown that was put on a German Em- map. the d peror at Versailles should be taken off well in advance Stoo» Orricee: Practically. We the present front to Berlin is at Potsdam that we naturally look to fiaven't decided yet, though, what to ly five hundred miles, and there — see it don: with the German prisoners. are serious obstacles still in the way One tl that may prevent it is for Fs of traveling it, Before ite 2 the ns to quit and take what Tt! best het of the German race is covere Northern France — terms they ean get. They ean do that, the Americanized Germans who must be and the Rhine be and in that way avoid, perhaps, the are fighting Germany HOW LLOYD GEORGE BECAME THE DRITISHL L103 comicbooks.com