From "Amsterdammer."
Between Scylla and Charybdis.
Waldeck-Rousseau—"Forward, dear friends, look neither to the right nor the left, and we will win through at last."
From "Humoristische Blätter" (Berlin).
The dangerous straits through which the Waldeck-Rousseau ministry was obliged to pass were hit off in a cartoon appearing in the Humoristische Blätter of Berlin, entitled "Between Scylla and Charybdis." On one side of the narrow waterway a treacherous rock shows the yawning jaws of the Army. On the other side, equally hideous and threatening, gleam the sharpened teeth of the face typifying the Dreyfus Party. Waldeck-Rousseau, appreciating the choppiness of the sea and the dangerous rocks, calls to his gallant crew: "Forward, dear friends, look neither to the right nor to the left, and we will win through at last." Many of the cartoons dealing with the Dreyfus case were mainly symbolic in their nature; full of figures of "Justice with her Scales," "Justice Blindfolded and with Unsheathed Sword," "Swords of Damocles" and so on. A Dutch cartoon in Amsterdammer, entitled "The Last Phase of the Dreyfus Case," showed Justice taking the unfortunate captain into her car. The horses drawing the car were led by Scheurer-Kestner and Zola, while following the chariot, to which they are linked by ignominious chains, were the discredited Chiefs of the Army. The same paper humorously summed up the condition of the French General Staff in a picture showing a falling house of which the occupants, pulling at cross-purposes, were accelerating the downfall. The decision upon Revision and the dispatching of the Spax to Cayenne to bring Dreyfus back to France was commemorated in London Punch in a dignified cartoon called "Toward Freedom." Madame la République greeted Dreyfus: "Welcome, M. le Capitaine. Let me hope I may soon return you your sword." The same phase of the case was more maliciously interpreted by Lustige Blätter of Berlin in a cartoon entitled "At Devil's Island," which showed the Master of the Island studying grinningly a number of officers whom he held in the hollow of his hand, and saying: "They take away one captain from me: but look here, a whole handful of generals! Oh, after all, the arrangement is not so bad."
At Devil's Island.