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Hitler Dead!
1945_A

By Ken Rolfe, The Cartoon Art Trust Museum, London, May 8, 1945

1945_D

A 1945 cartoon showing how all of Hitler's policies ended in death and savagery.

1945A

By Vicky, 'The News Chronicle', 1945

1945B

By Low, 'The Evening Standard', Febuary 22, 1945

General De Gaulle was not invited to the Yalta Conference. One commentator said that Yalta was
"the lump that stuck in the back of de Gaulle's throat".

1945C

By Illingworth, 'The Daily Mail', June 1, 1945

Syrian partys forced the French and the British to evacuate their troops. An
independent Syrian republic was proclaimed on April 17, 1946.

1945D

By Low, 'The Evening Standard', September 28, 1945

President Truman asks the British to admit 100,000 Jewish refugees into Palestine.
The British limit Jewish immigration into Palestine. The cartoonist David Low
recommends homes for 2 - 4 million Jews in Palestine.

1945E

By Illingworth, 'The Daily Mail', October 8, 1945

Harry Truman: "100,000 displaced Jews to be settled".

1945F

By Illingworth, 'The Daily Mail', November 23, 1945

Ernest Bevin "over his head"? It was said of Bevin the British Foreign Secretary "that it was hard to
imagine him filling any other job in the foreign office except perhaps that of an old and truculent lift attendant".