“The scum of the earth, I believe?"
"The bloody assassin of the workers, I presume?”

— David Low (cartoonist)

Evening Standard, September 20, 1939.
"Rendezvous", a cartoon set in the ruins of Poland showing Stalin and Hitler genially bowing to each other.

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British cartoonist 1891–1963

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