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1942.02.28 “Sea Monster” By Ralph Lee

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Title:	1942.02.28 “Sea Monster” By Ralph Lee
Artist:	Ralph Lee (All)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Illustration
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	244
Likes on CAF:	1 2
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Added to Site:	3/24/2020
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1942.02.28 “Sea Monster”
By Ralph Lee (1906-1947)
15 x 22 in., ink on board

Ralph Lee was an editorial cartoonist for the Portland Oregonian. He died suddenly, at 41, in January 1947. His cousin, Art Bimrose, was the editorial cartoonist for the Oregonian for more than three decades. In 1937, the Oregonian hired him part-time to work on printing plates. Following Lee’s death, Bimrose was hired as the Sunday editorial cartoonist.

When the armistice between France and Germany was put into force on June 25, 1940, the fate of the powerful French Navy—the fourth largest in the world—was of critical importance to the British.

Churchill dreaded the idea of the French Fleet falling into enemy hands while Britain stood alone against the Axis powers. The June 1940 armistice between Germany and France stipulated that the French Fleet would not be used by Germany or Italy but would be immobilized under their control. The Vichy French, though no friend of the British, also asserted that under no circumstances were their ships to be made available to the Germans.

“But who in his senses would trust the word of Hitler after his shameful record and the facts of the hour?” said Churchill.

Almost immediately, the British set out to neutralize or destroy the French Fleet.

As the war escalated in early 1942, with the US entry into the European War inevitable, the Germans began to move against the armistice. Britain and the Vichy forces stepped up their own actions, and the last of the remaining French Fleet was scuttled at Toulon in November 1942.

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Bill J
Member Since 2009

Posted on 3/24/2020

Wow! Historic! V. cool!

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