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    The Korean story 1 drawing. | Cartoon shows a cemetery full of graves (each headed with a cross that forms the "t" of the word "talk") reflecting on the combatants killed in Korea while the Panmunjom peace talks extended into their eighth month.
    • Contributor: Manning, Reg
    • Date: 1952-01-01
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    The dust has settled on the peninsula 1 drawing. | Cartoon shows a beaten-down father, mother, and child (labeled "Korean People Victims of 3 Years' War") standing on the Korean peninsula. Drawn to commemorate the Armistice ending the Korean War in July 1953.
    • Contributor: Duffy, Edmund
    • Date: 1953-01-01
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    [Two photographs showing "friendship center" on the border between North and South Korea (top); and communists (left) meeting with United Nations officers Pʻanmujŏm-ni, Korea (bottom)] 1 photographic print.
    • Date: 1964-01-01
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    Silent night 1 drawing. | Cartoon shows a night scene with a table (labeled "Peace Conference") and overturned chairs atop the rubble of war (labeled "Korea"). Invoking the title of the well-known Christmas carol, probably refers to the stalemated Korean War armistice discussions in 1952.
    • Contributor: Crawford, Bill
    • Date: 1952-01-01
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    Heartbreak Ridge 1 drawing. | Cartoon shows the despondent figure of Peace standing on a mountain in Korea amidst pages from a calendar for June through October. The caption (referring to one of the bloodiest battles of the Korean War) plus the cartoon comment on the months that have passed since armistice talks began in the summer of 1951.
    • Contributor: Bimrose, Art
    • Date: 1951-01-01
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    Familiar metamorphosis 1 drawing. | A four-panel cartoon shows the world (pictured as a man with a globe head) watching as a rolling ball labeled "Resumed Truce Talks" gradually slows and turns into a snail. Expresses disappointment at the lack of progress of the Korean War armistice talks after almost two years.
    • Contributor: Bimrose, Art
    • Date: 1953-01-01
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    One picture would be worth 10,000 words 1 drawing. | Cartoon shows an Oriental figure lettering a large poster full of Chinese characters (headed by the words "Red Talk at Panmunjom"). Next to the poster on the wall hangs a blank picture labeled "Decision on Prisoner Issue." With the caption, comments on the lengthy fruitless Korean War armistice negotiations and the question of whether to forceably return those Communist prisoners of…
    • Contributor: Lewis, Ross A. (Ross Aubrey)
    • Date: 1953-01-01
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    Aw, be a sport, girlie, lesh [sic] drink to peash [i.e. peace] evermore! 1 drawing. | Cartoon shows a drunk holding a bottle labeled "Appeasement" urging a despairing woman (labeled "U.S.") seated at a table (labeled "Korea") to join him in a drink. Reflecting the opinions of the right-wing Republicans, views the Korean cease fire negotiations as appeasement of the Communists.
    • Contributor: Batchelor, Clarence Daniel
    • Date: 1953-01-01
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    [Mao picking petals "yes" and "no" off of "truce talks" flower] 1 drawing. | Cartoon shows Chinese leader Mao Tse-tung using the child's method of pulling the petals off a flower in deciding whether to agree to a truce during the Korean War. Although truce talks began in July 1951, an armistice was not signed for two years. The United States viewed the Chinese participation in the talks as arbitrary and capricious.
    • Contributor: Marcus, Edwin
    • Date: 1951-01-01
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    Beginning to believe it? 1 drawing. | Cartoon shows a perplexed and despondent Uncle Sam, surrounded by papers labeled "Compromise," "Proposal," "Plea," and "Concession," seated before a blackboard on which is written: "There is no substitute for victory!" Reflects discouragement at the prospects for ending the Korean War by negotiation, after the armistice talks at Panmunjom had dragged on for two years.
    • Contributor: Alley, Cal
    • Date: 1953-01-01
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    Our Everest seems ever retreating 1 drawing. | Cartoon shows the figure of Columbia as the United States gazing up into the snow-capped mountains. The nearer ridge is labeled "PW"; the further is labeled "Korean Peace." Comments on the discouragement about the prospects for a cease fire in Korea, the Panmunjom peace talks having dragged on for many months.
    • Contributor: Batchelor, Clarence Daniel
    • Date: 1952-01-01
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    Number one on the U.N. agenda 1 drawing. | Cartoon shows the dove of peace being strangled in the coils and chains of Korea. Cartoon refers to the fact that the UN General Assembly had placed the stalled efforts to bring an end to the Korean War as the first item on its agenda on October 22, 1952.
    • Contributor: Hesse, Don
    • Date: 1952-01-01
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    Timed to impress him? 1 drawing. | Cartoon shows South Korean President Syngman Rhee, holding a hand to his ear to listen for the sounds of "Heavy Enemy Attacks." At the same time, he blocks a door through which a figure labeled "Truce" vainly tries to pass. Rhee opposed the American efforts to obtain an armistice and did what he could to sabotage the agreement. Probably to apply…
    • Contributor: Pease, Lute
    • Date: 1953-01-01
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    Where away? 1 drawing. | Cartoon shows the Grim Reaper (labeled "Aggression") carrying a huge scythe shaped like a sickle and a suitcase labeled "Korean Truce," striding through a bleak landscape of stones and crosses. Prepared in anticipation of the Korean Truce in July 1953, the cartoonist questions where Communist aggression will appear next.
    • Contributor: Fischetti, John R.
    • Date: 1953-01-01
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    How about the other buttons? 1 drawing. | Cartoon shows the hand of Soviet leader Stalin pressing a stop button labeled "Korea." Next to this button are other stop buttons labeled "Indochina," "Iran," "Yugoslavia," and "Germany." In 1952 and 1953, the Soviet Union had apparently used its influence to persuade Communist China and North Korea to agree to an armistice to end the Korean War. Taking the view that…
    • Contributor: Marcus, Edwin
    • Date: 1952-01-01
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    Now to hatch it 1 drawing. | Cartoon shows a dove (labeled "UN") on a nest sitting on an egg labeled "Korean Truce Pact." The dove dreams of the day when "Peace" will be hatched from the egg. Expresses the concern that the Korean Cease Fire may not provide lasting peace.
    • Contributor: Roche, Leo Joseph
    • Date: 1953-01-01
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    The sphinx 1 drawing. | Cartoon shows a small man labeled "The Public" asking General Douglas MacArthur (pictured as the Sphinx), "What do you think of the Korean Truce, General?" Questions the General's reaction to the Korean Armistice signed in July 1953. MacArthur, who had advocated all-out war, had been removed from his command as Supreme Commander by President Truman in April 1951.
    • Contributor: Roche, Leo Joseph
    • Date: 1953-01-01
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    Mute shades without credentials 1 drawing. | Cartoon shows representatives seated around a table (labeled "The Show Down on Korea"), behind which stand the ghosts of the Starved, the Frozen, the Tortured, the Sick, and the 8,302 Missing GI PW's. Comments on the American soldiers held by the Communists while peace talks drag on at Panmunjom.
    • Contributor: Batchelor, Clarence Daniel
    • Date: 1953-01-01
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    Still doesn't look like a dove! 1 drawing. | Cartoon shows a "Russian Vulture" holding a "Peace Bid" in its mouth, flying over a desolated area on the globe labeled "Korea." Reflects skepticism at the peace feelers made on June 23 in a radio address by Soviet delegate to the United Nations Jacob Malik.
    • Contributor: Werner, Charles George
    • Date: 1951-01-01
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    Why does everybody distrust me so? 1 drawing. | Cartoon shows a bewildered Soviet leader, Joseph Stalin, holding a paper reading "Cease Fire Bid" while behind him looms his large black shadow labeled "Past Record." In June 1951, the Russians called for a ceasefire in the Korean War. Many Americans, convinced of Stalin's duplicity after World War II, were suspicious of his motives.
    • Contributor: Marcus, Edwin
    • Date: 1951-01-01
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    Some folks even expect magic! 1 drawing. | Cartoon shows two hands pulling a rabbit (labeled "Quick, Easy Peace") out of a soldier's helmet (labeled "Ike's Trip to Korea"). Suggests skepticism that General Eisenhower's campaign pledge during the 1952 presidential campaign to "go to Korea" would have positive results in ending American involvement in the Korean War.
    • Contributor: Werner, Charles George
    • Date: 1952-01-01
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    A tough climb still ahead 1 drawing. | Cartoon shows a mountain climber (labeled "U.N.") sitting on a ridge labeled "Truce," looking up at a mountain wall labeled "Political Conference." The truce ending the Korean War in July 1953 called for a political conference between the United Nations and the Communists to make a final settlement. The cartoonist recognizes that, in the climate of the Cold War, this will…
    • Contributor: Marcus, Edwin
    • Date: 1953-01-01
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    Now that we talk of push-button war 1 drawing. | Cartoon shows two soldiers in Korea outside Panmunjom asking why there can't be a "Push-button peace." The caption refers to the term used in the prediction of future atomic weapon capability. The cartoonist contrasts this to the hopes for the success of the cease-fire talks at Panmunjom.
    • Contributor: Bimrose, Art
    • Date: 1952-01-01
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    Release! 1 drawing. | Cartoon shows a bloody clawed hand (labeled "Communist Barbarism") reaching for a pile of people (labeled "UN Prisoners"). With the caption, rejects the Communist demand that, as part of a Korean armistice, all North Korean and Chinese prisoners be returned to North Korea, even if they did not wish repatriation.
    • Contributor: Pease, Lute
    • Date: 1953-01-01
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    Is too bad, no? 1 drawing. | Cartoon shows a Red Chinese soldier showing the doorman a ticket (labeled "Truce") for admission to the "Club U.N." Expresses the fear that the Communist condition for a truce in the Korean War will be admission of Red China to the United Nations.
    • Contributor: Barrow, Henry (Henry C.)
    • Date: 1951-01-01