His definition of democracy, I felt, would be something like “government of the people, for the people, by benevolent and paternal ruling-class chaps like me.” Remembering him as one of the most energetic mis-educators of public opinion in the early 1920s, when his dislike of political onrushes took him within hail of fascism, when the rabbits of the Trades Union Council were held up as Russian bears and the idea of a Labour Government was alleged to mean the enthronement of Bolshevism at Westminster, I could never accept him as a democrat in the Lincolnian sense.” “Maliciously perceived truth” “An upholder of Democracy,” he described Churchill-“yes, when he was leading it.” Impatient with it when he was not… There he is, with his little tyke and his Joan Bull and her baby, deriding regularly everything that is of importance to our self-preservation.” Low on Churchill
“There is not a figure in it that is not instinct with maliciously-perceived truth…. (Dutch National Archives, The Hague, Fotocollectie Algemeen Nederlands Persbureau 1945-1989, public domain).Ī Low cartoon, Churchill went on, was a masterpiece of invective. Yousuf Karsh’s camera captured David Low (1943) with the same skill that he’d mastered Churchill. And as the Empire, etc., seemed strong enough to stand anything, the process was not only amusing and profitable it was safe. To jeer at its fatted soul was the delight of the green-eyed young Antipodean radical. Here was the British Empire emerging into conscious existence fanned by the quiet loyalty of hundreds of millions of faithful people under every sky and climate. Low is at once made and hampered by his upbringing….When he was growing to years of discretion, the best way of getting a laugh was to gibe at the established order of things, and especially at the British Empire. Of course, Churchill didn’t hesitate to say what he thought of Low’s politics: He was never a hater he appreciated talent, however directed. Such praise for someone who consistently poked fun at him is a fine example of Churchill’s collegiality. New Zealander David Low worked mostly for left-wing periodicals like the Star and the New Statesman. He is the Charlie Chaplin of caricature, and tragedy and comedy are the same to him.” “Low is the greatest of our modern cartoonists,” wrote Winston Churchill in his delightful essay “Cartoons and Cartoonists.” He praised “the vividness of his political conceptions,” and declared Low a singular artist: “He possesses what few cartoonists have-a grand technique of draughtsmanship.
Recognizable behind them are Neville Chamberlain, Clement Davies, Lord Halifax, Arthur Greenwood, Alfred Duff Cooper, A.V.
Front row: WSC, Clement Attlee, Ernest Bevin, Herbert Morrison, Leopold Amery. “All behind you, Winston.” David Low in the Evening Standard.
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