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This original printed appearance of a Punch cartoon featuring Winston S. Churchill comes from the personal collection of Gary L. Stiles, author of Churchill in Punch (Unicorn Publishing Group, 2022). His book is the first ever effort to definitively catalog, describe, and contextualize all of the many Punch cartoons featuring Churchill. This cartoon captioned "Four separate inquires have been started into the problem of cutting the Army's tail of non-combatants." appeared thus on p.358 of the 18 March 1953 issue of Punch. The artist is unknown.After being Leader of the Opposition since July 1945, Churchill finally returned to the premiership in October 1951. His second and final premiership would end with his retirement on 5 April 1955. In this cartoon, the tail refers to the long line of logistic costs and people that follow the army and support combat operations. In a discussion of this topic, it was pointed out in the House that four separate inquiries into these costs were being undertaken.Punch or The London Charivari began featuring Churchill cartoons in 1900, when his political career was just beginning. That political career would last two thirds of a century, see him occupy Cabinet office during each of the first six decades of the twentieth century, carry him twice to the premiership and, further still, into the annals of history as a preeminent statesman. And throughout that time, Punch satirized Churchill in cartoons more than 600 of them, the work of more than 50 different artists. It was a near-perfect relationship between satirists and subject. That Churchill was distinctive in both persona and physical appearance helped make him easy to caricature. To his persona and appearance he added myriad additional satirical temptations, not just props, like his cigars, siren suits, V-sign, and hats, but also a variety of ancillary avocations and vocations, like polo, painting, brick-laying, and writing. All these were skewered as well. Some Punch cartoons were laudatory, some critical, and many humorous, like the man himself. Nearly always, Churchill was distinctly recognizable, a larger-than-life character whose presence caricature served only to magnify. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 007185
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