Mr. Punch's History of the Great War by Punch
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cartoon, by the way, caused _Punch_ to be excluded for a while from
the Imperial Palace.) In February, 1896, Mr. Punch drew the Kaiser as Fidgety Will. In January, 1897, he was the Imperial actor-manager casting himself for a leading part in _Un Voyage en Chine_; in October of the same year he was "Cook's Crusader," sympathising with the Turk at the time of the Cretan ultimatum; and in April, 1903, the famous visit to Tangier suggested the Moor of Potsdam wooing Morocco to the strains of "Unter den Linden"--always at Home, "Under the Limelight," wherever I roam. [Illustration: "AU REVOIR!" GERMANY: "Farewell, Madam, and if--" FRANCE: "Ha! We shall meet again!" (_Sept. 27, 1873._)] In 1905 the Kaiser was "The Sower of Tares," the enemy of Europe. In 1910 he was Teutonising and Prussifying Turkey; in 1911 discovering to his discomfort that the Triple Entente was a solid fact. And in September, 1913, he was shown as unable to dissemble his disappointment at the defeat of the German-trained Turkish army by the |
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