ABSTRACT
In the period after Munich, and particularly after the seizure of Prague, substantial pressure built up in favour of changes in the British government. While the British were looking for some kind of compromise which would be acceptable to both Poland and the Soviet Union, reports arrived in London which suggested that Germany was putting immediate pressure on Poland, and that almost any day Poland would be forced either to make great concessions or else be invaded by Germany. On 1 September, Germany attacked Poland. Benito Mussolini, whose country was still completely unprepared for war, and who was far from pleased with the German Soviet Non-aggression Pact, attempted to stop the war. The cartoonist suggests that Adolf Hitler had planned a small war against Poland, but discovered to his astonishment and dismay that he has conjured up a very big war against Britain and France.
