Cartoon by Lang on Europe’s position in the Cold War (17 January 1948)
Image ‘They are in control — and they just go round and round …’ On 17 January 1948, in a period of increasing hostility between the United States and the Soviet Union, the German cartoonist Ernst Maria Lang portrays the harrowing situation of post-war Europe, held hostage to the tensions between Moscow and Washington.
Source and copyright
Source: Süddeutsche Zeitung. Münchner Neueste Nachrichten aus Politik, Kultur, Wirtschaft und Sport. 17.01.1948, Nr. 5; 4. Jg. München: Süddeutscher Verlag.
Copyright: (c) Ernst Maria LANG