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  • An Undesirable. Home Secretary. "We can't have you here." Trotsky. "But I'm an old friend of the house." Home Secretary. "Yes, I know. That's why." [During an interview which he gave various reasons for his request to be permitted to visit England, Trotsky is reported to have said: "The party which for the second time assumes power in Great Britain believes that the difficulties created by private ownership can be surmounted.... I want to see how it will be done." Mr Punch's cartoon expresses a speculative hope, not a prediction, that Trotsky's curiosity will be discouraged.] (an InterWar cartoon showing John Robert Clynes refusing Trotsky entry to Government House)
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  • A Touching Appeal. Russian Delegate. "What we want is your capital." John Bull. "What have you done with your own?" Russian Delegate. "Well, you see, we found the campaign against capitalism very costly." (cartoon showing Russia requesting a loan from Britain during the InterWar era)
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  • Vision of Reconstruction. "Now, you four, just pay attention to this." [The unnatural attitude of Landseer's lions in Trafalgar Square has provoked a long correspondence in The Times.]
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  • "I can remember the days when this bit of London was entirely uninhabited."
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  • The Samaritans
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  • "If, on the other hand, we do have a referendum—and it favours entry..."
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  • Beware the Jabberwock
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  • "Safe!" John Bull, AB. "Lor' bless you, my dears, you needn't worrit yourselves. I'll look after 'Im as if he was my own child!"
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  • On the Dizzy Brink. Lord B. "Just a leetle nearer the edge?" Britannia. "Not an inch further. I'm a good deal nearer than is pleasant already!"
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  • The Test. "If you really want harmony, let's start with something simpler."
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  • The Two Pyrami. "O sweet and lovely wall, show us thy chink."
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  • County Songs. XIV.—London. (Illustrated poem)
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  • Prospero. "The isle is full of noises, sounds and sweet airs, that give delight." (a cartoon shows a giant BBC Direct-General towering above the BBC headquarters in London)
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  • The Curse and the Cure. The Lady. "May I inquire what you think you're doing?" The Knight. "Madam, I am proposing to smoke out yon noisome dragon whose noxious fumes offend you." The Lady. "Oh, thank you so much!" [The electricity generated by the proposed power station at Battersea will no doubt diminish the volume of smoke from the chimneys of houses where coal is now freely used. But the process of generation will entail the combustion of coal - involving the discharge of noxious fumes and gases - on a scale unprecedented in this country."] (an InterWar cartoon showing a knight with his Battersea Power Station trident about to kill the dragon of pollution as London looks on from her castle)
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  • Afghanistan Repudiates Western Ideals. (a tribal Afghan jumps up and down on an English bowler hat during the InterWar era)
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  • The Hope of the House. Unemployed Ex-Service Man (to Apprentice Bricklayer). "Good luck, my lad. Wish I had your chance." [A Conference in Manchester last week approved a scheme for the training of a hundred thousand additional apprentices to the building-trades.] (an InterWar cartoon showing an out of work WW1 veteran and a young builder at a building site)
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  • The Incorruptible. Plutocrat. "Is a sop of any use to you?" Watchdog. "I have no idea what you mean." (the British Bulldog is offered a bone of money while at his Party Government dog house at the Temple of Honours Back Entrance during the InterWar era)
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  • 'It's no good - I just can't seem to think of myself as a EUROPEAN yob' (two British football hooligans on holiday)
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  • The Battle Front. "Down, lads, and at 'em!" (Ernest Bevin calls for more coal production by recruiting his Bevin Boys)
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  • The Compleat Anglers. (Mr Punch's vision of an ideal holiday). (Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin compare stories of how big their fishing catches were with framed fish Sicily, Orel and Munda on the wall)
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  • Unrelieved Cheerfulness. Mr Neville Chamberlain (directing his film "Tax Appeal"). "Splendid, John! Hold that smile a bit longer." (John Bull is restrained by his Income Tax straps)
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  • The Palestine Mandate. Britannia. "They gave me the scales of justice and her sword. I have used the scales; I had hoped not to have to use the sword."
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  • Sinfonia Socialistica. The Conductor. "Now remember, please - molto moderato; at any rate for the first movement."
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  • In the Movement; or, the New Dentality. Soviet Wolf. "What's the idea?" British Lion. "Oh, all the best people are thinking of having some of their teeth drawn." Soviet Wolf. "Then I'm with you." (aside) "It might get me back into society." [The Russian Soviet is proposing to take part in the next disarmament conference.]
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  • Under Which Flag? John Bull. "One of these two flags has got to come down - and it won't be mine." [Trades Union Congress holds the General Strike flag as John Bull defiantly stands infront of the British flag]
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  • Jack and the Dragon. British Tar (to China). "Look here, my friend, if you persist in treating me as a 'foreign devil,' there'll soon be the 'foreign devil' to pay."
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  • The Hazard of the Cast
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  • A Non-party Statement. John Bull (to the premier). "I shouldn't worry about that stuff. Nobody wants war - least of all on behalf of Greek imperialism; but if you are resolved to defend the freedom of the straits and the sanctity of our graves in Gallipoli you will have the country and the empire with you."
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  • Ballon D'Essai. The Puppet (wearing sash with 'Inspired Press'). "We're going to have a general election quite soon." [Pause for applause. None forthcoming.] The Ventriloquist. "What ever made you say that?"
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  • The Kindest Cut of All. Welsh Wizard. "I now proceed to cut this map into two parts and place them in the hat. After a suitable interval they will be found to have come together of their own accord - (aside) - at least let's hope so; I've never done this trick before."
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  • The New German Offensive. German Bagman (about to invade England). "After all, we were never really a military nation; THIS is the true German weapon."
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  • Our Man. With Mr Punch's grateful compliments to Field-Marshall Sir Douglas Haig.
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  • The Price of Victory. "Well, old girl, if we can't do that much, we don't deserve to win."
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  • "To us, WHOEVER the hell we are!"
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  • Height of Impudence. Irishman to John Bull. - "Spare  a thrifle, yer honour, for a poor Irish lad to buy a bit of  - a blunderbuss with."
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  • (Two British National Front thugs, carrying boards with nails punched through them, check a light-up street plan to locate the immigrant quarter where they are intent on causing trouble)
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  • "Well, if you know of a better 'ole, go to it." [With acknowledgement to Bruce Bairnsfather]
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  • Time to get up
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  • Further Outlook...
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  • Beware the Jabberwock
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  • The Stumbling-Block. "The first thing to do is to get rid of THAT."
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  • The Cat That Wanted to be Alone
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  • The Hunt is Up
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  • There Was an Old Woman... "And all these United Nations Conferences to house as well."
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  • All Together. "Hold it! Another year or so and you've got 'em!"
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  • "This is very kind of you, Mr Abdulla, I'd been waiting ages for the bus."
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  • "Mr Salami has kindly consented to come along and show us some filthy pictures."
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  • Under Which Flag? John Bull. "One of these two flags has got to come down - and it won't be mine."
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  • "That reminds me, dear - did you remember the sandwiches?"
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  • A suggestion to aid the Police in carrying out the recent order to exclude aeronauts from the coronation route.
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  • County Songs. XIV. London. (Illustrated poem)
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  • "We were doing fine re-establishing trade relations until you said, 'I'll drink to that'."
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  • For the Elephant to Decide. The secretary of state for India
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  • "But you must remember that I outnumbered them by one to three."
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  • New Game for Neptune. "Bring 'em down boys. I'll collect the pieces."
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  • What Next? Russian Bear."You've read my 'circular!' You know my intentions are strictly honourable! What are you going to do?" British Lion, "Blest if I know! Ask the government, and if they can't tell you, try the opposition!!"
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  • The August Moon (Hitler as the madman from Shakespeare's King Lear bays at the Conquest of Britain moon while silhouettes of British warships wait on the horizon)
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  • "Oh, yes, I almost forgot: we had an incendiary bomb through the roof this afternoon."
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  • Pleasure island. [Half a million visitors from overseas are expected in Great Britain this summer.] (the people of Britain including sportsmen, entertainers and workers hold up a banner Welcome To Britain at the seaside in preparation for the 1948 London Olympics)
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  • The World's Workers. Master of Agricultural College in Britain (to one of Agricola's inspectors). "Yes, I must admit we are rather weak in the most advanced subjects, but if you want to see us at our best you ought to see our bird-scaring class."
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  • Available Now (House salesman Emanuel Shinewell with an Ideal Home exhibit showing cold inhabitants without gas or electricity during austerity in Britain)
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  • Reading the Skies. "I have conquered all Gaul. How long will it take to conquer all Britain?" "Wait a moment, Leader, while I look at the omens of the air."
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  • “Whichever way you look at it, Britain’s no longer an island.”
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  • The Debtors. (Germany paints I.O.U on France's back and France does the same to Britain while Britain paints I Pay U on a wall drawing of Uncle Sam)
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  • The Changing Face of Britain. Travel Discipline.
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  • The Changed Face of Britain. 1/2 in the £. 10/- in the £.
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  • The Still Changing Face of Britain. The 8.55.
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  • The Changing Jokes of Britain. "How did 'ee get on up in London, Dan'l?" "Turrible, Silas it were that quiet I couldn't sleep a wink."
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  • The Changing Face of Britain. XXXIV. - News 1. - Good news 2. - Not quite so good news 3. - Worse news 4. - Definitely worse news 5. - Still worse news 6. - Bad news
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  • The Changing Face of Britain. XXXIII. - Appreciation of Nature
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  • The Changing Face of Britain. XXXII. - Cabaret
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  • The Changing Face of Britain. XXXI. - English Conversation
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  • The Changing Face of Britain. XXX. - Bridge Club
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  • The Changing Face of Britain. XXIX. - News-stand
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  • The Changing Face of Britain. XXVIII. - Appreciation
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  • The Changing Face of Britain. XXVII. - Waiting for the 9.15
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  • The Changing Face of Britain. XXVI . - Theatre Exit
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  • The Changing Face of Britain. XXV. - Parking Space
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  • The Changing Face of Britain. XXIV. - Feet
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  • The Changing Face of Britain. XXIII. - The Distaff Side
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  • The Changing Face of Britain. XXII. - Primary Education
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  • The Changing Face of Britain. XXI. - The Changing Face Itself
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  • The Changing Face of Britain. XX. - Hospitality
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  • The Changing Face of Britain. XIX. - The Garage
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  • The Changing Face of Britain. XVIII. - The Train Home
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  • The Changing Face of Britain. XVI. - Residential Area
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  • The Changing Face of Britain. XV. - Bus Stop
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  • The Changing Face of Britain. XIV. - Englishman's House
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  • The Changing Face of Britain. XIII. - The Grand Ballroom of the Hotel Sublime
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  • The Changing Face of Britain. XII. - Shop-front
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  • The Changing Face of Britain. XI. - Hey for the open road!
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  • The Changing Face of Britain. X. - Lost Property Office
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  • The Changing Face of Britain. IX. - The ploughman homeward plods...
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  • The Changing Face of Britain. VIII. - The Shop Window
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  • The Changing Face of Britain. VII. - Night Life
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  • The Changing Face of Britain. VI. - The Club.
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  • The Changing Face of Britain. V. - The Village
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  • The Changing Face of Britain. IV. - The Town Hall.
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  • The Changing Face of Britain. III. - The Public Park.
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  • The Changing Face of Britain. II. - Entertainment.
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