The "Land & Water" edition of Raemaekers' cartoons, volume 1
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Published by “Land & Water,” EMPIRE HOUSE, KINGSWAY, W.C. Copyright in all Countries.
Louis Raemaekers will stand out for all time as one of the supreme figures which the Great War has called into being. His genius has been enlisted in the service of mankind, and his work, being entirely sincere and untouched by racial or national prejudice, will endure; indeed, it promises to gain strength as the years advance. When the intense passions, which have been awakened by this world struggle, have faded away, civilisation will regard the war largely through these wonderful drawings. By them, not only the methods of German warfare will be judged, but the resolution will surely be begotten and nurtured that never again, so far as it is humanly possible, shall a recurrence of Teuton inhumanity and barbarism be permitted.
Before the war had been in progress many weeks the cartoons in the Amsterdam Telegraaf attracted attention in the capitals of Europe, many leading newspapers reproducing them. The German authorities, quick to realise their full significance, did all in their power to suppress them. Through German intrigue Raemaekers has been charged in the Dutch Courts with endangering the neutrality of Holland—and acquitted. A price has been set on his head, should he ever venture over the border.
When only a week or two ago he crossed to England, his wife received anonymous post-cards, warning her that his ship would certainly be torpedoed in the North Sea. The Cologne Gazette , in a leading article on Holland, threatens that country that “after the War Germany will settle accounts with Holland, and for each calumny, for each cartoon of Raemaekers, she will demand payment with the interest that is due to her.” Not since Saul and the men of Israel were in the valley of Elah fighting with the Philistines has so unexpected a champion arisen. With brush and pencil this Dutch painter will do even as David did with the smooth stone out of the brook; he will destroy the braggart Goliath, who, strong in his own might, defies the forces of the living God.
Louis Raemaekers
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AN APPRECIATION FROM THE PRIME MINISTER
“FOR YOUR MOTHERLAND”
The Next to be Kicked Out—Dumba’s Master
The Friendly Visitor
“To Your Health, Civilisation!”
Fox Tirpitz Preaching to the Geese
The Prisoners
It’s Unbelievable
Kreuzland, Kreuzland über Alles
The Ex-Convict
Miss Cavell
The Hostages
King Albert’s Answer to the Pope
The Gas Fiend
The German Tango
The Zeppelin Triumph
Keeping Out the Enemy
The German Offer
The Wolf Trap
Ahasuerus II.
Our Candid Friend
Peace and Intervention
Little Red Riding Hood
The Sea Mine
“Seduction”
Murder on the High Seas
Ad Finem
“U’s”
Mater Dolorosa
“Gott strafe Italien!”
Serbia
“Just a moment—I’m coming”
The Holy War
“Gott mit Uns”
The Widows of Belgium
The Harvest is Ripe
“Unmasked”
The Great Surprise
Thou art the Man!
Sympathy
The Refugees
“The Junker”
“Au milieu de fantômes tristes et sans nombre”
Bluebeard’s Chamber
The Raid
Better a Living Dog than a Dead Lion
“The Burden of the Intolerable Day”
Eagle in Hen-run
The Future
Christ or Odin?
Ferdinand
Juggernaut
Michael and the Marks
Their Beresina
New Peace Offers
The Shields of Rosselaere.
The Obstinacy of Nicholas
Bundles of Four
The Order of Merit
The Marshes of Pinsk
God with Us
Ferdinand the Chameleon
The Latin Sisters
Misunderstood
Prosperity Reigns in Flanders
The Last Hohenzollern
Piracy
“Weeping, She hath Wept”
Military Necessity
Liberté! Liberté, Chérie!
I—“A Knavish Piece of Work”
II—“Sisyphus,—his Stone”
Concrete Foundations
Pallas Athene
The Wonders of Culture
“Folk Who Do Not Understand Them”
On the Way to Calais
Von Bethmann-Hollweg and Truth
Van Tromp and De Ruyter
War and Christ.
Barbed Wire
The Higher Politics
The Loan Game
A War of Rapine
The Dutch Junkers
The War-makers
The Christmas of Kultur, A.D. 1915
Serbia
The Last of the Race
The Curriculum
The Dutch Journalist to his Belgian Confrère
A Bored Critic
“The Peace Woman”
The Self-satisfied Burgher
The Decadent
Liquid Fire
Nish and Paris
The Fire Fiend
The German Oculist
Willy-Nilly
The Shirkers
Lager Beer for Tripoli
The German Anti-Bellicist
One of the Kaiser’s Many Mistakes
The German Spy
Belgium in Holland
Serbia
Slow Asphyxiation
The German Propagandist
Jackals in the Political Field
The Sacrifice
“Lusitania” Amok
A Letter from the German Trenches
“It was I who opened fire on Rheims”
Corn and Cattle
His Master’s Voice
Hun Generosity
Easter, 1915
Duty—and Safety
The New Dutch Oil Line
Pan Germanicus as Peace Maker
Gott Mit Uns
Idyllic Neutrality
Alcoholism
Political and Economic Rapprochement
Why They Were Taken
Mon Fils, Belgium, 1914
Holland to Belgium
A Conflict of Testimony
The Ferocious Bellicose Party
Holland and Militarism
Our Lady of Antwerp
Deportation
The Envoy to Her Majesty
The German Band
A Fact
The Free Sea
Belgian Refugee to His Dutch Brother
The “Falaba”
The “Katwyk”
Arcades Ambo
Neuve Chapelle
Atrocities
“Is it You, Mother?”
Germany’s Dummy
SPECIAL NOTICE
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