Cartoon by Shepard on the issues surrounding the airlift to West Berlin (14 July 1948)

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In July 1948, as the Soviet authorities impose the Berlin Blockade, British cartoonist Ernest Howard Shepard takes an ironic look at the vain attempts by Moscow to put an end to the airlift organised by the Western Allies in order to bring supplies to West Berlin.

Source and copyright

Source: Punch. or The London Charivari. 14.07.1948, No 5613; Vol. CCXV. London.

Copyright: (c) Punch

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Cartoon by Shepard on the issues surrounding the airlift to West Berlin (14 July 1948)