Cornell University Library Digital Collections
East vs. West
- Title:
- East vs. West
- Alternate Title:
- East vs. West
- Collection:
- Persuasive Cartography: The PJ Mode Collection
- Creator:
- Garrett
- Date:
- 1948
- Date 2:
- 2024-04-25
- ID Number:
- 2361.01
- File Name:
- PJM_2361_01.jpg
- Style/Period:
- 1940 - 1959
- Subject:
- Communism & Cold War
Pictorial
Satirical
- Measurement:
- 35 x 28 page (centimeters, height x width)
- Notes:
- This very early Cold War map of Europe is the cover of a special supplement to the Philadelphia Inquirer for April 15, 1948. East and West are divided by a huge Iron Curtain, stretching - in Churchill's words - "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic." To the West is an immense image of Uncle Sam pushing a wheelbarrow laden with the food, medical supplies and oil brought to foster recovery by the Marshall Plan. (Elsewhere in the supplement is a detailed description of the Marshall Plan and a chart of "How Marshall Plan Money Will Be Distributed.") To the East is a barren Soviet Union, represented by a dozen howling wolves eager to scale the wall confining them. For other persuasive maps in this supplement, see ID ##2361.02-.03.
For another three-dimensional view of the Iron Curtain, in this case the Berlin Wall, see ID #1374.01.
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- Source:
- "Two Worlds Atlas," The Philadelphia Inquirer, April 15, 1948.
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- For important information about copyright and use, see http://persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu/copyright.
