Cartoon by Pi on France’s strategic interests (27 October 1960)

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‘Both feet firmly in the clouds.’ On 27 October 1960, the German cartoonist, Pi, takes an ironic look at the political and military ambitions of General de Gaulle, President of the French Republic, after the explosion, on 13 February at Reggane in the Algerian Sahara, of the first French atomic bomb.

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Source: Industriekurier. Unabhängige Zeitung für Politik, Wirtschaft und Technik. Hrsg. WRIETZNER, Hugo ; Herausgeber WRIETZNER, Hugo. 27.10.1960, n° 166; 13. Jg. Düsseldorf: Becker&Wrietzner. "Mit beiden Beinen fest auf den Wolken", auteur:Pi , p. 1.

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Cartoon by Pi on France’s strategic interests (27 October 1960)