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1939.01.14 "They Both Want Peace" by Vaughn Richard Shoemaker

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Title:	1939.01.14 "They Both Want Peace" by Vaughn Richard Shoemaker
Artist:	Vaughn Shoemaker (All)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Illustration
For Sale Status:	NFS
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"They Both Want Peace" (January 14, 1939)
by Vaughn Richard Shoemaker (1902-1991)
22 x 24 in., ink on paper

Vaughn Richard Shoemaker (August 11, 1902 Chicago, Illinois � August 18, 1991 Carol Stream, Illinois) was an American editorial cartoonist. He won the 1938 and 1947 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning and created the character John Q. Public.

Shoemaker started his career at the Chicago Daily News and spent 22 years there. His 1938 Pulitzer cartoon for the paper was "The Road Back", featuring a World War I soldier marching back to war. The 1947 winning cartoon for the paper was "Still Racing His Shadow", featuring "new wage demands" of workers trying to outrun his shadow "cost of living". He went on to work for the New York Herald Tribune, the Chicago American, and Chicago Today. By his 1972 retirement he had drawn over 14,000 cartoons.

On January 11�14, 1939, after signing the infamous "peace for our time" Munich Agreement that opened the way for Hitler�s occupation of Czechoslovakia, UK prime minister Neville Chamberlain and UK foreign secretary Lord Halifax visited Rome to confer with Italian premier Benito Mussolini, hoping to find some way to appease the Italians.

The visit was the last official attempt by the UK government to bring Italy into the Allied sphere before war broke out with Germany eight months later.

The Chamberlain-Halifax visit was characterized well in the diary of Mussolini�s son-in-law and foreign minister, Count Galeazzo Ciano: �In substance, the visit was kept on a minor tone, since both the Duce [Mussolini] and myself are scarcely convinced of its utility. . . . How far apart we are from these people! It is another world. We were talking about it after dinner with the Duce . . . . �These men are not made of the same stuff,� he was saying, �as the Francis Drakes and the other magnificent adventurers who created the Empire. These, after all, are the tired sons of a long line of rich men, and they will lose their Empire.�. . . .The British do not want to fight. They try to draw back as slowly as possible, but they do not want to fight. . . .Our conversations with the British have ended. Nothing was accomplished. I have telephoned Ribbentrop that the visit was a �big lemonade� [farce].�

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