| Image | 
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| Reference Number | GS0244 |
| Alt Ref No | GS0244 |
| Artist or Creator | Sidney 'George' Strube |
| Title or Caption | The Jap : "Gimme some o' that!" |
| Extent | 1 item |
| Published by | Daily Express |
| Date | 16 Feb 1933 |
| Format | Artwork |
| Size | 38.3 x 53.3cm |
| Technique | black ink/blue crayon |
| Embedded text or transcript | The Geneva Temperence "League"
Europe 1914
war spirit
Jap
Ask for a tank
cruiser tonics
bomb wine
gas on draught
shell hooch |
| Person Depicted | John Bull; (Symbol for England) |
| Mars; Roman god |
| Notes | In 1914 the world was in shock at the horrors of World War I. The peace treaties of 1919 established a League of Nations, based in Geneva, which would act as an international peace-keeping organisation. All members of the League swore to the League's Covenant, which promised to discourage war, encourage cooperation and work towards disarmament. Japan was a permanent member of the League's Council and had therefore sworn to uphold this covenant. By the 1930s the enthusiasm for peace-keeping had waned somewhat, evident in the failure of the League's Disarmament Conference to secure agreement about the disarmament process. The economic crisis precipitated by the Wall Street Crash had contributed to a rise in aggression, notably in Italy and Japan, and also to an increased focus on domestic problems amongst League members such as Britain and France. The combination of these two factors doomed the League. In 1931 the Japanese Kwantung Army invaded Manchuria, a province of China. This invasion not only contravened the Covenant, it also contravened the multi-nation Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928, which disavowed war and which Japan had signed. The League dispatched Lord Lytton to conduct an inquiry. The report was finally completed in October of 1932, found Japan to be the aggressor and ordered her withdrawal from China. Japan refused to accept the findings and eventually, in March 1933, left the League. Japan then invaded Jehol, Manchuria's neighbouring province. This proved that the League was incapable of countering determined aggression and contributed to the collapse of the League and thus to the outbreak of war in 1939. |
| Subjects | Armaments |
| Armed forces |
| International relations |
| Japan |
| League of Nations 1919 |
| World War 1914-1918 |
| drunkenness |
| rearmament |
| temperance |
| Copyright holder | Express Syndication Ltd |
| Copyright contact details | desk@mirrorpix.com |
| Location of artwork | British Cartoon Archive |
| Relates to cartoon | GS0244 |
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| Code | PersonName | Dates | About | Multimedia | Image |
| GB/BCA/40 | John Bull; (Symbol for England) | | | | |
| GB/BCA/18 | Mars; Roman god | | Roman god of war. | | |