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Until the next time. 
Thank you mart again for your advice.
1918: Victory!
The war’s end has now become the story in Punch. This drawing does justice to the exhilaration that was felt at the time. At long last this miserable and destructive episode was over. The cost in human suffering as well as financially was to be counted for years to come. Even so, for one brief moment the mood was ecstatic.
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1918: A manly response
This cartoon explicitly recognises the Armistice. The man who over indulged insists that kissing a policeman is unjustified – even if he himself had done so.
The Armistice meant that though actual fighting had ceased there technically still was a war. Until the 1919 Peace Treaty was signed that still was the case. The embargo on food reaching Germany and her former allies remained intact. This caused a great deal of suffering in the defeated countries.
1918: The man of the hour?
This drawing appeared in Punch in the hour of victory. It must therefore have reflected the views of a number of people at the time. Very few modern historians (if any) would endorse this opinion. The widely accepted view is that Haig was unable to think outside the most obvious of military tactics. He was a plodder who was ready to accept enormous casualties so long as the enemy’s losses were even greater. The adulation of Haig by private soldiers seen here is extremely unlikely.
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1918: Taciturnity
The two Caledonians are not going to indulge in elaborate celebration.
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1918: Withdrawal Symptoms
Herbert’s problem will soon be solved. He will find other interests to follow. Most older participants in the actual fighting will be pleased to return to humdrum civilian life. There will also be a minority who will feel like Herbert and for a much longer time. They will tend to become anti-social if not worse.
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1918: Countess mistaken for a housemaid
Just in case we hadn’t noticed the hospital visitor is very grand – a countess no less. Under no circumstances could she possibly have suffered from housemaid’s knee. The soldier’s social horizons are too limited for him to notice the difference.
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1918: A topical allusion
The allusion is biblical and is best interpreted as a metaphor. The vicar looking forward to peace at last thinks he can find a fellow believer in its literal truth and is firmly contradicted.
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1918: A double meaning
George Belcher again takes us into a world which is different from the usual upper middle class scenes which were the mainstay of Punch cartoons. The scene is a double decker bus. Two passengers sitting downstairs (i.e. insides) have told the female conductor that the portly man upstairs will pay for them. She merely wants to be sure that the right person is paying for their tickets.
On the other hand the man does look as though he really does have two insides…. In spite of wartime rationing.
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1918: No more news?
Having heard about the war news all her life she is understandably surprised to learn that there are still news without a war.
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1918: Recycling a Catch Phrase
During World War Two I remember people saying ‘don’t you know that there’s a war on’ to excuse shortages and inefficiency. From this cartoon I assume that that was also the case in the earlier war. The artist here is pointing out that even without a war these things will still happen.
I wonder why it is all portrayed in France. Perhaps the artist had just returned from a post war visit to France. Possibly it shows anti French prejudice that can now express itself since France was no longer an ally in the war.
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1918: The club bore
The officer isn’t prepared to listen to Jones rambling on. Poor Jenkins!
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1918: Welcome to the President of the United States
The President, Woodrow Wilson, arrived in readiness for the Paris Peace Conference. He had issued a document containing fourteen points. This was welcomed as a noble manifesto which was intended to achieve a just and lasting peace. The lady welcoming the President is Marianne the symbol of France in the same way that John Bull was the symbol of Britain.
Like the current incumbent of that mighty office Wilson was to find that American policy was not entirely in his gift. His pet project was the establishment of the League of Nations which would ensure that meaningful discussions would replace war. The League came into being but the United States did not become a member because Congress refused to ratify American entry.
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1918: Votes (and membership of Parliament) for women
Once the war was over a General Election was held. For the first time women were now able to vote and to be candidates for election. At the time this was limited to women aged 30 and above. Complete equality was not achieved until ten years later.
In this cartoon a voter reacts to the-would-be MP in a patronising way. Does he really think that the election is about beer and tobacco? She probably has a better grasp of the issues than he does.
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1918: The General Election
As always profiteers are again the butt of Punch humour. This profiteer’s idea of canvassing is to bribe the voters. Banknotes were called Bradurys after the name of the company that printed them. The cartoon shows the candidate as unable to understand the democratic process.
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1918: She prefers things as they were
Once again the profiteer is being pilloried. It is his wife who is being gently praised because she prefers the simpler things to which she really ‘belongs’.
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1918: Not at all politically correct
Women over 30 now had the vote. The cartoonist is seeking to make fun of them. It is patronising to assume that they can’t make a decision and then stick to it. Such humour is totally out of place nowadays.
“It is patronising to assume that they can’t make a decision and then stick to it. Such humour is totally out of place nowadays.”
Very apropos considering the referendum result. 
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1918: There’s something about a soldier
For some return to civilian life can be disappointing.
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1918: Explaining the election result
This was a time when most readers of Punch could be expected to know their Latin or, failing that, pretend to know it. Nowadays we tend to talk of three party politics. At the time this was new a development.
Since Victorian times the political landscape, excluding Ireland, had consisted of Conservatives and Liberals. Now a third party, the Independent Labour Party, was emerging as a force to be reckoned with. The Latin tag literally meant ‘the third thing’. It was used to explain any situation in which a third element had come into the discussion. The man on the left has not understood what the man on the right is saying. He merely meant that Jones would normally have won but now Robinson has attracted enough of Jones’ votes to enable Brown to win. I would guess that Robinson is the Labour Party upstart who has taken enough votes from the Liberal Jones enabling the Conservative Brown to be elected.
The Punch readers who understood the Latin quip would be laughing at the expense of the man on the left.
