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JOHN FISCHETTI, Newspaper Enterprise Association
Fearing they had inferior nuclear capacity, the Soviets launched the "peace offensive" in 1953, engaging in a propaganda campaign against the use of nuclear weapons. Cartoonist John Fischetti believed that the Soviets deceptively offered peace talks as a gesture to distract the West from their real intention, to overwhelm the "free world" with their military might. Fischetti worked for several newspapers during his thirty-nine-year career as an editorial cartoonist, including the Newspaper Enterprise Association between 1948 and 1962.
John Fischetti (1916–1980). Carrot and the Stick, 1953. Published by the Newspaper Enterprise Association, 1953. Graphite, India ink, and opaque white drawing. Gift of John Fischetti, 1953. |