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    Raemaekers' Cartoon History of the War, Volume 1 The First Twelve Months of War
    Raemaekers' Cartoon History of the War, Volume 1 The First Twelve Months of War
    Raemaekers' Cartoon History of the War, Volume 1 The First Twelve Months of War
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    Raemaekers' Cartoon History of the War, Volume 1 The First Twelve Months of War

    By J. Murray Allison and Louis Raemaekers

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    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Raemaekers' Cartoon History of the War, Volume 1 The First Twelve Months of War - J. Murray Allison

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      Volume 1, by Louis Raemaekers

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      Title: Raemaekers' Cartoon History of the War, Volume 1

      The First Twelve Months of War

      Author: Louis Raemaekers

      Editor: J. Murray Allison

      Illustrator: Louis Raemaekers

      Release Date: October 4, 2010 [EBook #34031]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK RAEMAEKERS' CARTOON HISTORY, VOL 1 ***

      Produced by Chris Curnow, Anne Storer and the Online

      Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This

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      RAEMAEKERS’

      CARTOON

      HISTORY OF THE WAR

      RAEMAEKERS’

      CARTOON

      HISTORY OF THE WAR

      COMPILED BY

      J. MURRAY ALLISON

      Editor of Raemaekers’ Cartoons, Kultur in Cartoons,

      The Century Edition de Luxe Raemaekers’ Cartoons, etc.

      VOLUME ONE

      THE FIRST TWELVE MONTHS OF WAR

      NEW YORK

      THE CENTURY CO.

      1918

      Copyright, 1918, by

      The Century Co.

      FOREWORD

      In all the welter of the tragic upheaval which is shattering institutions once thought immutable, condemning millions to physical death and awakening other millions to spiritual life, making staggering discoveries of unexpected human strength or weakness, thrusting men into fame one day or to oblivion the next, there has been nothing more dramatic than the sudden manifestation of the genius of the Dutchman, Louis Raemaekers, who, as Europe recoiled from the first shock of German barbarity, threw down his brush for his pencil and by the intensity of his spirit aroused the compassion and fired the anger of the world with his cartoons of the Belgian violation.

      He, more than any other individual, has made intensely clear to the people the single issue upon which the war is joined. More than cartoonist, he is teacher and preacher, with the vision, faith, and intensity of a St. Francis, a Luther, or a Joan of Arc.

      On August 1, 1914, we find him a quiet, gentle man, the son of a country editor, happy in his family, devout, contemplative, loving beauty and peace, contentedly painting the good and lovely things he saw among the tulip-fields and waterways, the cattle and the wind-mills of his own native Holland before the gray-clad millions of the Kaiser burst into the low countries with fire and sword.

      Then comes the miracle of his transformation; the idyllic is thrust aside by the hideous reality; beauty is drowned in a bestial orgy of force; and in place of the passive painter arises the fiery preacher; the brush is discarded for the pencil, and the pencil in his hands becomes an avenging sword, because by it millions of people have been aroused to a clear-cut realization of the fact that the issue of this war is no less than Slavery and Autocracy versus Freedom and Democracy.

      The very first of his war cartoons indicated the prophetic vision of the man, and gave the first evidence of his inspiration and genius. It is called Christendom after Twenty Centuries and shows a bowed and weeping figure crouching under the sword and lash. It was drawn on that fateful day August 1st, 1914. The intensity of emotion shown in this drawing revealed his power for the first time. To Raemaekers himself it came as a vision and a summons. The landscape painter disappeared, and in his place arose a champion of civilization, throbbing with sublime rage and pity, clothed with authority, and invested with a weapon more powerful than the ruthlessness it indicts.

      When the stories of the Belgian horror began to circulate in Holland, Raemaekers, like the rest of the humane world, refused to credit them. His own mother was German; he had spent many happy years in Germany; he knew the German peasant as a kindly and happy, if rather stupid fellow; it was incredible that such men could have done the awful things alleged. But the tales persisted, and although the evidence of the wracked and broken refugees who poured into his country by tens of thousands seemed irrefutable, he could not believe it, and readily seized upon the common supposition that the terrible stories were the product of the imagination of an overwrought and panic-stricken people. At length he could remain in doubt no longer, and quietly slipped over the frontier to verify for himself the truth or falsehood of the accusations that had already made Germany guilty of the foulest crimes ever perpetrated in the name of war since the dawn of civilization.

      What he actually saw with his own eyes he does not tell. But a hundred of his early cartoons bear witness to the burning impression made upon his soul. Raemaekers, like others who have seen them, cannot speak of these unnamable horrors, but can only express his consuming pity or his white-hot rage in the medium that lies nearest his hand. On one occasion only has he publicly referred to his experiences in Belgium. It was at a dinner given him by the artists and literary men of London at the Savage Club, where, pointing to the portraits and trophies of Peary, Scott, Nansen, Shackleton, and other explorers which hang on the walls, he said: I, too, have been an explorer, Gentlemen. I have explored a hell, and it was terror unspeakable.

      It did not take long for the High Command in Berlin to learn through its agents in Holland of the impression that was being created in the public mind by Raemaekers’ cartoons. The publication of his first series of cartoons in the Amsterdam Telegraaf, reflecting the unspeakable horror of the atrocities in Belgium and denouncing with burning scorn the Kaiser and his infamous captains, gave such offense to the All-Highest in Potsdam that the German Government offered twelve thousand guilders for his body dead or alive! Further magnificent testimony to the hurt he inflicted on our

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