Life, 1918-11-21 · page 12 of 34
Life — November 21, 1918 — page 12: what you’re looking at
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**Top Cartoon:** Shows a man in formal dress on a beach addressing a boy in the water. The caption quotes the uncle saying he wants "a statue of that scoundrel" Kaiser Wilhelm, calling it "only a plaster cast, and Bill's inside!" This is anti-German propaganda—the uncle fantasizes about imprisoning the German leader inside a statue, expressing wartime hostility toward Kaiser Wilhelm II. **Middle Section:** Prints "Resolutions of the Up-in-the-Air Club of Germany"—satirical complaints from German military leadership blaming Allied soldiers, French forces, British troops, and Americans for their military failures. It mocks German excuses rather than accepting responsibility for the war. **Bottom Cartoon:** Depicts soldiers discussing going home after "strapping Huss"—likely references capturing a German commander, with dark humor about military discipline during WWI demobilization.
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Uncle HERE! WHAT PO YOU SUPPOSE I WANT A STATUE OF THAT SCOUNDREL FOR? “T'S ONLY A PLASTER CAST, AND BILL'S INSIDE Resolutions of the Up-in-the-Air Club of Germany HEREAS the soldiers of the Godless Entente ities have invented strange and horrible methods of war- fare, prominent among which are an entirel nd disorganizing respect for women unnecessary and children, and a disconcerting habit of refusing to maneuver as our High Command has decided that they ought to maneuver ; and WHEREAS the contemptible and inefficient’ Yankees, on being outnumbered, surrounded and hopelessly defeated, kill large numbers of our brave soldiers and finally succeed in escaping with numerous prisoners, contrary to all prece- dents in civilized warfare, and otherwise behave toward Germany in a highly disrespectful and offensive manner ; and WHEREAS the soldiers of France, who ought to be en- tirely out of the war because of being bled white, insist on interfering with our irresistible armies and wrecking their plans in most annoying fashion; and WHEREAS the British troops display their ignorance of modern warfare by leaving their trenches in broad daylight, when all respectable soldiers ought to be asleep, and com- ing into our trenches and messing them up and killing our noble troops before they know what is happening to them ; and WHER mustard gas from us and are using it against us; WHEREAS the Americans were not able to transport an army to Europe, but have done so, and could not feed the army even though it could be transported, but are feeding it better than we ever fed our armies in our lives, BE IT RESOLVED, that the present war does not meet with our approval, and that something ought to be done about it, and that we do not care to play unless thi changed, and that we will not stop because if we did we S the Entente Allies have stolen the idea of DISADVANTAGES OF A PROPOSAL IN A SPOT RENOWNED FOR ITs ECHO. would be doing what the Entente Allies want us to do, and that the Entente Allies had better look out or they will be sorry, and that they had no business not to lose the war years azo, and that it is their fault that the war still continues, which it would not be doing if they had only quit when we wanted them to, and that their actions have been a great disappointment and that we hate them all Signed, Ur-x-tue-Aik Crus or Gea many ON OUR WAY HOME. Pessimist (stung with police duty): THAT'S ALL RIGHT FER YOU FELLAS, BUT I'LL BE TH’ GUY THAT'S ELECTED 10 STAY AND TIDY UP TH’ BATTLEFIELDS, comicbooks.com