Word: cartoonable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enclosure was a 38-page pamphlet by Father Edmund Aloysius Walsh. President of the Society, considered the leading Catholic authority on Russia today, one-time Director-General of the Papal Relief Mission to Russia (1921-22). Pages 28 to 30 were devoted to three Soviet cartoons, the first showing a workman climbing up to Heaven with his hammer to smash all the Gods, who appear frightened, and the third cartoon depicting the cemetery of the Gods after they have been knocked on the head and buried...
Instead of the second cartoon there was a page of the pamphlet boxed by a heavy black mourning band. Within was printed...
Privately Father Walsh agreed last week that the cartoon, to which his pamphlet ascribed no date, actually appeared in Soviet Russia seven years ago. He agreed that since then there have been "modifications of the [Soviet] method, which has passed from legal brutality to brutal legality"?i. e. Soviet law is now enforced with iron strictness, but Soviet law no longer countenances savage acts. Father Walsh further agreed that most of the Soviet atrocities and murders of priests described in his pamphlet (nearly all without dates) occurred prior to 1923, and some as early as 1919, when the present...
...covering letter Father Walsh wrote: "To the Right Reverend and Reverend Clergy. . . . You will notice that . . . mention is made of a particularly blasphemous cartoon ... in mockery of the Sacrament of the Eucharist...
...would not have been American to give this depressing cartoon the caption GET OUT OR GO UNDER: Bruin on the Bourse. But it was very British to do so, and very like the respected Manchester Guardian Commercial to come paddling serenely along with its Commercial Annual Review 1929, long after most citizens of the U. S. had been glad to forget there ever was such a year...