Title

The Belgian "Menace"'

Description

Belfast Telegraph 1917 - Sketch entitled 'The Belgian "Menace"', reproduced by special permission of Punch magazine. The image depicts 'Belgium' as a young woman shackled to a prison wall being watched over by the Kaiser. The caption reads: 'Kaiser - "If I grant you my gracious pardon, will you promise not to terrorise me again?" (Belgium would be required to give a guarantee that any such menace as that which threatened Germany in 1914 would in future be excluded" - German Foreign Secretary to Papal Nuncio at Munich).

Theme

War Art and Poetry