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May 7, 2012 · A “Cannon Fodder” is soldiers regarded or treated as expendable in battle. This title was given to this cartoon, as it was believed that all the Treaty of Versailles did was set up the future generations of the world to be nothing more than “cannon fodder”. In addition, this tells us that there is peace now but there will be war in the ...
Jun 4, 2014 · Analysis of a primary source "Peace and Future cannon fodder" from Punch 1920. Focusing on understanding the message of the source and briefly thinking about...
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The drawing, published on 17 May 1919, was entitled 'Peace and Future Cannon Fodder'. It portrayed the Allied leaders (Vittorio Orlando, David Lloyd George, Woodrow Wilson and Georges Clemenceau) emerging from a meeting in Paris to discuss a post-war peace treaty (which later became known as the Treaty of Versailles). Clemenceau, identified by ...
This cartoon shows Georges Clemenceau (the French Prime Minister, known as ‘The Tiger’) and other Allied leaders leaving the Paris Peace Conference talks. They pass a weeping child labelled ‘1940 Class’, who stands near a copy of the Treaty of Versailles.
Dyson was devastated and suffered a mental breakdown. He was unable to work for some time but returned in May and produced his most famous cartoon, Peace and Future Cannon Fodder, where he predicted that the Versailles Treaty would lead to a Second World War. Will Dyson, Daily Herald (17th May, 1919)
In the present scene, they seem to be leaving a grand building, as signified by the pillar, after another meeting to discuss the terms of the treaty. When the cartoon appeared, the allied peace terms had presented to just the been German delegates but had not yet been Figure 2. “Peace and Future Cannon Fodder”. Daily Herald, 17 May 1919.
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drawing Peace and Future Cannon Fodder for the Daily Herald, Will Dyson showed the Allied victors of the war exiting the Versailles peace conference and the French prime minister Georges Clemenceau saying: “Curious! I seem to hear a child weeping.” Behind a pillar a naked infant labelled “1940 class” is crying into its folded arms.
