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| Reference Number | LSE2071 |
| Alt Ref No | LSE2071 |
| Artist or Creator | David Low (1891-1963) |
| Title or Caption | The conference excuses itself. |
| Extent | 1 item |
| Published by | Evening Standard |
| Date | 23 May 1934 |
| Format | Newspaper |
| Embedded text or transcript | "My friends, we have failed. We just couldn't control your warlike passions."
Disarmament Conference
Common people of the World |
| Notes | Also published in "A Cartoon History of Our Times by David Low" [Simon and Schuster, 1939, p.19] Text on facing page: "By May 1934 the Disarmament Conference had utterly disintegrated. Japan and Germany had quit the League of Nations, and Great Britain was divided as to what policy it should pursue in the face of the rising power of the so-called "have-not" countries. The National Government, with Ramsay MacDonald still its titular leader and Sir John Simon in the Foreign Office, was propitiating Germany and Japan at every opportunity, while at the same time it was stepping up Britain's own expenditures on arms."
Also published in "Years of Wrath: A Cartoon History 1932-1945 by David Low" [Victor Gollancz, 1949, p.17] Text printed underneath: "The common people of the world still had hopes when the Disarmament Conference met at last, thirteen years after the end of the war. But it was too late and the opportunity had been let slip. Hitler's Germany had broken with the League after having been refused equality in armaments and Japan was preparing to leave. Militant nationalism was on the increase everywhere. The governments of the dominant Powers had not agreed on a collective security policy, and were reluctant to face questions of principle. The Confernce petered out."
"Circumstances became too much for the Disarmament Conference which had by this time come down to arguing about the number of bolts and nuts on a tank. It adjourned." from "Europe since Versailles" by Low. |
| Subjects | Disarmament |
| Failure |
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| international conferences |
| sheep |
| tigers |
| wolves |
| Copyright holder | Associated Newspapers Ltd. / Solo Syndication |
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| Relates to cartoon | LSE2071 |