A Warning
This political cartoon is a black-and-white sketch. It shows a young woman standing in front of a tall monument in a park with trees and bushes. She wears a flowy dress down to her ankles with a short black shawl around her shoulders. She also has a white scarf with U.N on it. In her left hand, down at her side, she grips a newspaper called the Palestine Gazette. The newspaper’s headline says Open Warfare, and underneath it in smaller font is Bloodshed. The monument has a tall base with a trophy figure on top. The base says, “Here Lieth the League of Nations who died from a surfeit of doing too little too late.” The woman looks down at the words on the base of the monument. The caption under the image says, “A Warning.”
This cartoon is similar to image 3, but it depicts the U.N in a more innocent light, using a woman as the symbol. On April 19th, 1946, the League of Nations was officially disbanded. It was formed after WWI to create lasting peace and stability. The monument in the cartoon symbolizes their failure to prevent war and stands as a warning to the United Nations to avoid repeating the same mistakes. The United Nations was the successor to the League of Nations, with the same goal of peace. The newspaper held by the women depicts a headline about the aftermath of another failed peace plan. The UN can heed the “warning.” It still has time to redeem itself, unlike the League of Nations. It also shows, however, that if the UN does not do something to break the tensions between Israel and Palestine, it will suffer the same fate.