>>122157780>>122157743The editor sat down to read the editorial. He was immediately interrupted from that entertaining occupation. Next to arrive was the artist.
"Aha!" said the editor, "very good! I have a subject for a cartoon in view of the latest cable from Germany."
"What about this?" said the artist. '"The Steel Helmet and the General Situation in Germany'?"
"All right, you work something out and then show it to me."
The artist went back to his department. He took a square of drawing-paper and made a pencil sketch of an emaciated dog. On the dog's head he drew a German helmet with a spike. Then he turned to the wording. On the animal's body he printed the word 'Germany', then he printed 'Danzig Corridor' on its curly tail, 'Dreams of Revenge' on its jaw, 'Dawes Plan' on its collar, and 'Stresemann' on its protruding tongue. In front of the dog the artist drew a picture of Poincare holding a piece of meat in his hand. He thought of something to write on the piece of meat, but the meat was too small and the word would not fit. Anyone less quick-witted than a cartoonist would have lost his head, but, without a second thought, the artist drew a shape like a label of the kind found on necks of bottles near the piece of meat and wrote 'French Guarantees of Security' in tiny letters inside it. So that Poincare should not be confused with any other French statesman, he wrote the word 'Poincare' on his stomach. The drawing was ready.
"Twelve Chairs", 1928
