Cartoon by Behrendt on British accession to the EEC (September 1962)

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‘Two souls, alas! reside within my breast …’ In September 1962, referring to the dilemma of Goethe’s Faust, the cartoonist Fritz Behrendt shows Harold Macmillan, British Prime Minister, hesitating between the United Kingdom’s special relationship with the Commonwealth and the country’s accession to the European Common Market.

Source and copyright

Source: BEHRENDT, Fritz. Trotzalledem, Eine Auswahl von 100 politischen Karikaturen. Rotterdam: Nijgh & van Ditmar, [s.d.].

Copyright: (c) Fritz Behrendt
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Cartoon by Behrendt on British accession to the EEC (September 1962)