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Article: Kem's cartoons in the second world war: Valerie Holman describes the little-known role played by the cartoonist Kem in assisting the British propaganda effort aimed at Iran.(Kimon Evan Marengo)
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- March 1, 2002
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`When War began and the Ministry of Information was formed I was asked to submit some ideas for our propaganda in the Middle East.'
Nothing in this laconic recollection from the Egyptian-born political cartoonist Kem (Kimon Evan Marengo, 1907-88) hints at the prodigious output of visual material that was to follow. Nor does it give any indication of the extent to which, during the Second World War, the British Government ultimately committed itself to publishing and distributing overseas printed propaganda, from periodicals, posters, tracts and cartoons to tiny cards for packets of tea (produced in millions) and miniature booklets dropped over target cities by the ...