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TITLE:  Something the cat brought in

CALL NUMBER:  CD 1 - Pease, no. 71 (B size) <P&P>[P&P]

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:  _ _ _ _ _

RIGHTS INFORMATION:  May be restricted: Information on reproduction rights available in LC P&P Restrictions Statement.

SUMMARY:  Cartoon shows British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain (holding his trademark umbrella) gazing in dismay at a scrawny cat (labeled "Appeasement") holding in his mouth a dead rat (labeled "Hitler's Promise to Make No More Demands"). Expresses skepticism at the fruits of Chamberlain's diplomacy at Munich, in 1938, when Hitler had promised that the Czech Sudentenland was his last objective. Hitler very shortly took over the rest of Czechoslovakia.

MEDIUM:  1 drawing.

CREATED/PUBLISHED:  [between 1938 and 1939]

CREATOR:

Pease, Lute, 1869-1963, artist.

NOTES:

(DLC/PP-1954:R2.71)

mm / 860529; ljr / 950608.

SUBJECTS:

Chamberlain, Neville,--1869-1940.
Hitler, Adolf,--1889-1945.
International relations--Great Britain--1930-1940.
Cats--1930-1940.
International relations--Germany--1930-1940.
Rats--1930-1940.

FORMAT:

Editorial cartoons American.
Drawings.

PART OF:  Cartoon Drawings (Library of Congress)

REPOSITORY:  Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

DIGITAL ID:  (digital file from intermediary roll film) acd 2a10824 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/acd.2a10824

CONTROL #:  acd1996005969/PP



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