POLITICAL CARTOONS.

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Album of original compositions and accomplished copies of political cartoons and artwork. An intriguing amateur compilation of political cartoons and illustrations from the 1930s and the Second World War, documenting the rise of fascism, economic turmoil, and the collapse of the interwar settlement. The collection was made by an obscure but committed and visually talented compiler, who used graphic satire, both his own work and that of others, to create an ideological record of his times."C. H. Singer" has signed the album, next to his address, "Hinata, Shiplake". This appears to be the Charles H. Singer (1871-1945) is recorded in the 1939 Register as a railway bookstall manager in Shiplake, Oxfordshire. He has written the note, "If a study of these cartoons tends to convince you that there may, after all, be something in the other man's point of view, & that there may be a 'better way' than we are at present pursuing, the work put into the following pages will not be entirely 'Love's Labour's Lost'". The artworks are generally well-executed copies, usually in colour, of other artists' works, but the album also includes many original unpublished compositions. Singer was evidently of socialist and pacifist sympathies, and his satire is directed towards unemployment, poverty, militarism, rearmament, imperial policy, and the broken promises made to the soldiers and working men of the First World War. International subjects are central: the impotence of the League of Nations, the

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