Raemaekers' Cartoon History of the War, Volume 1: The First Twelve Months of War — John Shaqi
Raemaekers' Cartoon History of the War, Volume 1: The First Twelve Months of War
History
Raemaekers' Cartoon History of the War, Volume 1: The First Twelve Months of War
World War, 1914-1918 -- Caricatures and cartoons; World War, 1914-1918 -- Humor
2. Are you physically fit?
The only man who can say honestly that he is not physically fit is
the man who has been told so by a Medical Officer.
3. Do you suggest you cannot leave your business?
In this great crisis the only man who cannot leave his business is
the man who is himself actually doing work for the Government.
If your conscience is not clear on these three points your duty is
plain.
ENLIST TO-DAY
GOD SAVE THE KING
_Newspaper advertisement in
British Press, May, 1915._
[Illustration]
_THE SACRIFICE--FOR HUMANITY'S SAKE_
The women of Great Britain will never forget what Belgium has done for
all that women hold most dear.
In the days to come mothers will tell their children how a small but
great-souled nation fought to the death against overwhelming odds and
sacrificed all things to save the world from an intolerable tyranny.
The story of the Belgian people's defense of freedom will inspire
countless generations yet unborn.
EMMELINE PANKHURST,
_in "King Albert's Book."_
[Illustration]
_ON TICKET-OF-LEAVE_
"_Next time I'll wear a German Helmet and plead 'Military Necessity'_"
The German went into this war with a mind which had been carefully
trained out of the idea of every moral sense or obligation, private,
public, or international. He does not recognize the existence of any
law, least of all those he has subscribed to himself, in making war
against women and children.
All mankind bears witness to-day that there is no crime, no cruelty, no
abomination that the mind of man can conceive which the German has not
perpetrated, is not perpetrating, and will not perpetrate if he is
allowed to go on.
These horrors and perversions were not invented by him on the spur of
the moment. They were arranged beforehand. Their outlines are laid down
in the German war book. They are part of the system in which Germany has
been scientifically trained. It is the essence of that system to make
such a hell of countries where their armies set foot that any terms she
may offer will seem like heaven to the people whose bodies she has
defiled and whose minds she has broken of set purpose and intention.
RUDYARD KIPLING,
_at Southport, England, June, 1915._
[Illustration]
_ANOTHER GERMAN "VICTORY"_
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