Wesney, Roy, 1918-1998 :[Twenty-five cartoon clippings from the Southland Daily News. 1940-ca 1952].

Includes:

A Nazi mixture - Mother Goebbels fancy cookery (Goebbels stirs the cauldron of German news rations. 1940?)

Mein Gott! and I'm fully extended!! (Hitler flees from Father Time. ca 1940)

Painful abstraction (Winston Churchill, dentist, extracts the German Navy from Hitler's mouth. ca 1940).

Mein Gott, Churchill!! (Winston Churchill is introduced to Hitler as his "protection". ca 1940).

Attack on British Isles. (The German Blitzkreig propaganda pushes the enthusiastic German public, which pushes Hitler. ca 1940)

Southland fighter plane. (Southland fighter plane sends Hitler, Goebbels, Mussolini running. ca 1940).

The March of Liberation. "Seize the world and liberate the peoples to a higher culture" - Mein Kampf. (Clipping from Southland Daily news, 1 June 1940).

Naziculture. "Look Josef! There's still some French lilies in my new garden! (Hitler and Goebbels tend a garden almost full of swastika flowers. Southland daily news. 29 June 1940).

"Are you sure you chaps won't take a hand!" - "No thanks, we've given up gambling!!" (Hitler plays cards with Chamberlain, and tries to get Stalin and Mussolini to join in. ca 1940)

"Who 'bones' the cat?" (Goering, Hitler and Mussolini have managed to get the bone of Trondheim off the Norway dog, but the Lion of the Allies guards a larger bone, which they need. Southland daily news. 10 May 1940).

Just like Popeye. Italian Navy spinach [and] Nazi Navy spinach - "We thrive on it!" (Sailor of HMS Faith tucks into a meal of tinned spinach. Southland daily news. 6 July 1940).

The water jump (The jockey Hitler stands dejected, stopped by the barrier of the British Navy, from jumping the English Channel. ca 1940).

[Use of the trams for multifarious purposes to save petrol: mail services, milk deliveries, furniture removal, kindergarten, drinking bar]. Southland daily news, 24 August 1940.

News item - a number of well known cricketers have joined the Air Force. (A German bowler bowls to an R.A.F. batsman. ca 1940).

Up - or down? (New Zealand helps Britain to scale the War effort peak, and stop it slipping into the Nazi depths). Southland daily news. [ca 1940].

Outclassed. (As Hitler walks between Denmark and Norway on the earth above him, the Devil considers that he himself is outclassed and will have to resign. ca 1940).

Monkey business. (Hitler plays the Italian organ while Mussolini dances monkey-like. Southland daily news. 15 June 1940).

...[Open?] season. They won't let me settle for long nowadays! (Hitler the goose flies over Norway fleeing the guns of the Allied assistance. ca 1940).

"We go to bed to forget the strain and worries of the world in sleep!" (And promptly begin dreaming of capturinfg Hitler, ... Mr Nash taking more of our wages ... Postmaster general tampering with our letters ... petrol restriction nightmare. Southland daily news. 17 August 1940).

"I tell you guys I'm definitely not playing in this game. You'll have to play on your own marits!! (The Fifth Column briefs the Nazis before their rugby match against Britain. ca 1940)

"Let me assist you boys". (The Bluff Harbour bandwagon entertains. ca 1952).

What MORE do you want? (Southland rugby player wins many rugby games against other provinces, but still cannot get the NZ Rugby selectors to take notice. 1952)

"We'll slay 'em". NZ Boxing champs at Invercargill - Administration vs C C Gerrard; Organisation vs Pat Hughes. (ca 1952)

Maybe they'll push if the going gets really tough ... (sportsmen on a cart to sports centre 50,000 miles away. ca 1952)

Changing his spots - Mr Hyde [and] Dr Shekel. (Politican taxes alcohol but gives out trust disbursements for the public good. ca 1952).

Quantity: 25 b&w photo-mechanical print(s).

Physical Description: Newsprint clippings stuck to lined paper, images approximately 115 x 162 mm.

Provenance: Donated by Mrs Noelene Wesney in 1999.