Peace and intervention

Category

Library Item

Item no

33044

Title

Peace and intervention, German militarism on the allies' operating table

Description

"For the sake of the world's future we must first use the knife".

"The French President, on 22 December 1914, made the following declaration in the Chambers of Deputies: At the present hour only one policy is possible: a fight without mercy until Europe be definitely liberated by an entirely victorious peace... Faithful to it's signature to the agreement 4 September, in which it pledged its honour and therefore also its life, France will only lay down her arms when she has revenged the rights which have been violated, permanently regained for the French Fatherland the provinces which have been forcibly robbed from her, restored heroic Belgium...and broken Prussian militarism, to build up on the basis of justice at last a new-born Europe..."

Artist / maker

Raemaekers, Louis

Date

1916

Size

35.0 x 24.5 cm

Type

Chromolithograph

Location

Art and Design Library

Copyright

Louis Raemaekaers' drawings are reproduced by kind permission of the Louis Raemaekers Foundation.