Life — May 31, 1923 — page 10: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# Post-Card Notes on the European Middle from Senator McCormick This page presents five political cartoons by caricaturist Robert Paul Malone, allegedly based on Senator McCormick's observations of post-WWI Europe. The sketches satirize European political figures and conditions: 1. **Turkey**: References Kemal Pasha and Turkish stability 2. **Holland**: Depicts "isolationists" (two senators are the joke) 3. **Mussolini/Italy**: Alludes to tensions between fascism and communism ("black shirts and black hands") 4. **Germany**: Shows the large standing army in French uniforms 5. **England**: Features George Harvey discussing 1924 election issues (knee-breeches fashion) The cartoons mock American senators' naïveté about European affairs while commenting on post-war political instability, militarism, and fascism emerging across Europe.