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DON HESSE, St. Louis Globe-Democrat
In 1953, Georgi Malenkov succeeded Joseph Stalin as premier of the Soviet Union and launched the "peace offensive" with the statement that there is "no litigious or unresolved question which could not be settled by peaceful means on the basis of the mutual agreement of the countries concerned." Don Hesse, cartoonist for the St. Louis Globe-Democrat between 1951 and 1984, believed that the "peace offensive" was merely propaganda that undermined Western defense.
Don Hesse (1918–1985). Undermining Again, 1953. Published in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, 1953. Graphite, India ink, opaque white, and blue pencil drawing. Gift of Don Hesse, 1954. |