Churchill & Gandhi.- Fearon (Percy Hutton) "Poy". Cat's Meat for the Tiger, pen and ink cartoon with blue pencil shading, pencil caption beneath, Churchill as a tiger is offered a plate of cat food, signed, 195 x 241mm., [c.1930]. ⁂ For the 1926 budget Poy drew a cartoon entitled "The Cat's-Meat Man", depicting Churchill carrying a basket marked 'Budget' followed by a screeching crowd of cats labelled 'Motorist', 'Housewife', Unemployed', 'Taxpayer' etc led by Baldwin. This cartoon has echoes of the 1926 one but refers to Churchill's comments about Gandhi: 'The truth is,' Churchill wrote, 'Gandhi-ism and all it stands for will, sooner or later, have to be grappled with and finally crushed. It is no use trying to satisfy a tiger by feeding him with cat's-meat.' It was December 11, 1930. A month later, Gandhi was released from jail. He wrote a letter to the viceroy, Lord Irwin. 'Dear Friend,' he said. 'I have received suggestions from friends whose advice I value that I should seek an interview with you.' "Irwin invited him to the palace. The two men met and talked. They met again and talked and again. Winston Churchill was disgusted, The British government must, he said in a speech, dissociate itself from this 'weak, wrong-headed' rapprochement: 'It is alarming and also nauseating to see Mr Gandhi, a seditious Middle Temple lawyer, now posing as a fakir of a type well known in the East, striding half naked up the steps of the viceregal palace, while he is still organising and conducting a defiant campaign of civil disobedience, to parley on equal terms with the representative of the King-Emperor. Such a spectacle can only increase the unrest in India.' (Delanceyplace.com)
Churchill & Gandhi.- Fearon (Percy Hutton) "Poy". Cat's Meat for the Tiger, pen and ink cartoon with blue pencil shading, pencil caption beneath, Churchill as a tiger is offered a plate of cat food, signed, 195 x 241mm., [c.1930]. ⁂ For the 1926 budget Poy drew a cartoon entitled "The Cat's-Meat Man", depicting Churchill carrying a basket marked 'Budget' followed by a screeching crowd of cats labelled 'Motorist', 'Housewife', Unemployed', 'Taxpayer' etc led by Baldwin. This cartoon has echoes of the 1926 one but refers to Churchill's comments about Gandhi: 'The truth is,' Churchill wrote, 'Gandhi-ism and all it stands for will, sooner or later, have to be grappled with and finally crushed. It is no use trying to satisfy a tiger by feeding him with cat's-meat.' It was December 11, 1930. A month later, Gandhi was released from jail. He wrote a letter to the viceroy, Lord Irwin. 'Dear Friend,' he said. 'I have received suggestions from friends whose advice I value that I should seek an interview with you.' "Irwin invited him to the palace. The two men met and talked. They met again and talked and again. Winston Churchill was disgusted, The British government must, he said in a speech, dissociate itself from this 'weak, wrong-headed' rapprochement: 'It is alarming and also nauseating to see Mr Gandhi, a seditious Middle Temple lawyer, now posing as a fakir of a type well known in the East, striding half naked up the steps of the viceregal palace, while he is still organising and conducting a defiant campaign of civil disobedience, to parley on equal terms with the representative of the King-Emperor. Such a spectacle can only increase the unrest in India.' (Delanceyplace.com)
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