Volume 2 — The European War As Seen By Cartoonists
Reading edition
[German Cartoon]
The Fatal Moment In America
—From Simplicissimus, Munich.
"Citizens of America, protect your existence and your honor by the force of arms!"
"Sorry, but just now we happen to be sold out!"
[English Cartoon]
Top Dog
—From The Bystander, London.
[German Cartoon]
England's "Splendid Isolation"
—From Simplicissimus, Munich.
[English Cartoon]
The Sultan "Over the Water"
—From Punch, London.
MEHMED V. (to Constantinople): "I don't want to leave you, but I think I ought to go."
[German Cartoon]
Churchill's Flag Swindle
—From Simplicissimus, Munich.
"Really I don't care to go out any more in these disgraceful rags!"
"Cheer up, Mrs. Britannia, just steal something better!"
[German Cartoon]
May God Punish England!
![[Reproduction of a cover design of a widely advertised issue of Simplicissimus, the German comic weekly published in Munich. The legend at the top reads, May God Punish England!]](/illustrations/9ec25b0a2ce7d1d9.png)
[Reproduction of a cover design of a widely advertised issue of "Simplicissimus," the German comic weekly published in Munich. The legend at the top reads, "May God Punish England!"]
[Italian Cartoon]
Speeches of the Kaiser in 1915
—From L'Asino, Rome.
JANUARY: "I alone will defeat the world."
MARCH: "Naturally, with God's help."
JUNE: "All goes badly—the fault is not mine."
DECEMBER: "The fault is his."]
[English Cartoon]
Our Embarrassing Cousin
—From The Bystander, London.
JONATHAN: "In spite 'f my noo-trality, John, d'ye notice how 'ffectionate I am?—how I sympathise with yer?"
JOHN BULL: "M—m'yes, that's all right, but I should like it better just now if you'd leave my hands a bit freer to fight those rascals as they deserve!"
[German Cartoon]
John Bull at the Costumer's
—From Simplicissimus, Munich.
"What costume shall I choose so that none will recognize me?"
"Why don't you go as a gentleman?"
[English Cartoon]
William o' the Wisp
—From Punch, London.
[German Cartoon]
American Neutrality
—From Meggendorfer-Blaetter, Munich.
[English Cartoon]
What the War Office Has to Put Up With
—From Punch, London.
Demonstration of a device for catching bombs from airships.
[German Cartoon]
Va Banque!
—From Lustige Blaetter, Berlin.
The Monte Carlo habitue's last play.
[Italian Cartoon]
The Final Earthquake—In Germany
—From L'Asino, Rome.
By the grace of God and the will of the nation.
[The falling columns are marked "feudalism" and "militarism."]
[German Cartoon]
From the English Eating-House
—From Lustige Blaetter, Berlin.
England utilizes the refuse of her domestic establishment as cannon fodder.
[English Cartoon]
The Bread-Winner
—From Punch, London.
[Italian Cartoon]
Italy's Neutrality
—From L'Asino, Rome.
Every day the dance becomes more difficult.
[The dancer is the German Ambassador, von Buelow.]
[English Cartoon]
Busy Packing
—From The Bystander, London.
SULTAN MEHMED: "'Am I there'?!! I should rather think I am!! We're being 'moved,' you know. And the hammering outside is something too awful!!"
His ISLAMIC MAJESTY HADJI GUILLIOUN: "Kismet, my boy, Kismet! Besides, I feel sure you'll be awfully pleased with Asia Minor—so quiet!—we Mussulmans always feel so at home there, too!"
[The English preface their telephone conversations with "Are you there?" instead of "Hello!"]
[German Cartoon]
In the Cause of Culture
—From Simplicissimus, Munich.
"Papa has gone away to Europe to protect the nice Englishmen from the savages. If you are very good, perhaps he will bring you back a nice German beefsteak."
[English Cartoon]
Queen Elizabeth in the Dardanelles
—From Punch, London.
[The reference is to the huge British dreadnought that bears the name of England's famous queen.]
[French Cartoon]
The "Sick Man" At Home
—From Le Rire, Paris.
The camel with two humps.
[The original title was "Le Chameau à deux Boches." In French slang a German is a bosche.]
[German Cartoon]
"The Cripple-Entente"
—From Lustige Blaetter, Berlin.
As it must finally be.
[French Cartoon]
Beware of the John-Bull-Dog!
—From Le Rire, Paris.
"Go lie down, contemptible little England!"
"What I get my teeth into I hang onto!"
[German Cartoon]
The Great Question
—From Lustige Blaetter, Berlin.
"If I remain neutral, will you remain neutral?"
—From Lustige Blaetter, Berlin.
"If you were neutral, would he be neutral?"
—From Lustige Blaetter, Berlin.
"If he is neutral then we will remain neutral."
—From Lustige Blaetter, Berlin.
"If we remain neutral, will they remain neutral?"
—From Lustige Blaetter, Berlin.
"And you also, neutral?"
"Shall you remain neutral?"