On 6 October 1948, during the US presidential election campaign, British cartoonist Low takes an ironic look at Western Union’s inability to defend itself and raises the possibility of US military assistance. From left to right: Paul-Henri Spaak, Belgian Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, Ernest Bevin, British Foreign Secretary, Robert Schuman, French Foreign Minister, Thomas Dewey, Republican candidate in the US presidential elections, and John Foster Dulles, diplomatic adviser to Thomas Dewey.