Wyndham Robinson
The Morning Post folded in 1936, or rather was absorbed into The Daily Telegraph. It was a Tory newspaper, that is professing allegiance to the Conservative Party, and to its far Right tendency. Wyndham Robinson was its cartoonist, and as the Labour politician Herbert Morrison records in the introduction to the last compilation of published cartoons, reflected the political stance of the newspaper itself. "He said in pictures what the leader writers said on the editorial page." It was not always thus. The cartoonist of his generation, David Low, promoted values and opinions totally at variance to his employer, Max Beaverbrook. Herbert Morrison encountered Robinson the usual way that a politican meets a cartoonist - in pursuit of the original artwork. He was remarkably tolerant given the images that follow. They measure 17 x 25 cms in the format published by Herbert Jenkins, London.

"International Exchange of Fashions" 18th July 1936, given the marketing of a suit called the Eden in Norway.

"Protective Arrest" 20th March 1936, Goebbels and Göring take the emblematic figure of Peace. As you'll see from these examples, Robinson was a man of little visual background (unlike Low who delighted in setting his particpants in rooms, Elysian Fields, Cinemas etc that really helped his point.

Robinson equates Clem Atlee with Hitler and a magnificently bovine Mussolini.

Almost an image from the Satiric past this - the great maw of the Communist exploiter devouring the Jarrow hunger marches.



By Chris Mullen
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