File:Cartoon for a Telegram.jpg
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Hand carving up a map of the Southwestern United States
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| Date | [1917 March 4.] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | 1 drawing : India ink over graphite underdrawing ; sheet 33.6 x 36.4 cm. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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World War I cartoon shows a hand in a gauntlet (decorated with the imperial German eagle) carving up a map of the Southwestern United States. Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas are labeled "For Mexico." California is labeled "For Japan(?)" The rest of the country is labeled "For Myself." In the spring of 1917, the British government intercepted and turned over to the United States a message from German Foreign Secretary Arthur Zimmerman to the Government of Mexico, urging Mexico to join with Japan and declare war on the United States. Zimmerman suggested that this would be a way for Mexico to reclaim the Southwestern states lost during the Mexican War. American outrage following the publication of the Zimmerman Telegram was one of the factors causing the U.S. to declare war on Germany. Berryman follows the popular notion that the German Kaiser was the force behind German aggression. Title devised by Library staff. Signed on lower right. Published in: The Evening star (Washington, D.C.) (DLC/PP-1945.R1.79) Exhibited: "Echoes of the Great War : American Experiences of WW I" in the Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., April - Nov. 2017. mm / 860122; ljr / 030626. Sources: DeWeerd, President Wilson fights his war, p. 21, Ferrell, American diplomacy, p. 133 ljr CD 1 - Berryman (C.K.), no. 455 (A size) Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print Drawings--1910-1920. Editorial cartoons--American--1910-1920. |
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