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...debutant, a shy, gentle man with a Pinocchio-sized nose, was the Washington Post's cartoonist, Herbert Lawrence Block, 40. He had won a Pulitzer Prize (1942), but he'd never seen anything like this. Eyeing the 194 cartoons, all signed with the economy-size pen name (Herblock), one dowager gushed to Block: "There's a complete timelessness about your cartoons. They'll last, I think, for at least ten years...
...timelessness but his topicality that had made Herblock one of the most widely syndicated editorial cartoonists in the U.S. His daily cartoons combine impact and ideas, the technical simplicity of the drawing school with the political sophistication of the drawing room...
...these policies did not necessarily add up to a Fascist State, nor to making Laval quite the Little Man that he was pictured by Cartoonist Herblock of the Pittsburgh Press. Friend of France with kind words for harassed Marshal Pétain was Catholic Monsignor Mark Boehm. Writing in Rome for the Vatican City newspaper, Osservatore Romano, Mgr. Boehm saw "the good Marshal" using an authoritarian regime to create "a civic conscience that opens and prepares the way for ... strengthening the moral conscience. . . ." Praise from the Vatican newspaper was the next best thing to a blessing by the Pope...