Cartoon by Low on the risks posed by the growth of Communism in France and Italy (14 October 1947)
On 14 October 1947, in the light of the socio-economic difficulties facing Western Europe, British cartoonist David Low illustrates the growing influence of the Communist parties in France and Italy and sees Jacques Duclos, one of the leading figures in the French Communist Party and Vice-President of the French National Assembly, and Palmiro Togliatti, Secretary of the Italian Communist Party, as two representatives of Moscow’s political ideas.
