HITLER IN CARBONS

Evening Star, Issue 25083, 26 January 1944, Page 6

HITLER IN CARBONS

"ALWAYS AS A FOOL" The famous New Zealand cartoonist, Mr David Low, gave away something in the nature of a " trade " secret wneu speaking at the opening of an art exhibition in the Czecho-Slovak Institute, London. He said that Hitler was not at all an easy sulbject for the cartoonist. Apart from the " synthetic build-up of a moustache," the Fuhrer presented nothing in the way of character or striking features. " But," Mr Low went on to say, " if Hitler is an unpromising subject there are two ways to draw him. You can draw him as a monster or as a fool. Now, it is a belief of mine that there is more stupidity than wickedness in the world. I know that is an idea about which there might be much argument. But I think that.

" T prefer to draw Hitler as a fool, largely because 1 know that he prefers to be drawn in other ways. If I were a dictator for a bit I should pay cartoonists to draw me as death on a white horse galloping across the heavens, or as one of these big fellows with hairy chests. That would be exactly the sort of conception I should want to build up. What T should want .to avoid would be to have myself represented as a fool. " Now T am very glad that there are no representations in this exhibition of Hitler in horrific aspects, because that, I think, feeds his vanity. I infinitely prefer the fool racket, because I have always found it the method which is most productive of protests from the Reich, from Nazi sources in Berlin. The greatest trouble that I have ever got into personally with the Nazi Reich was when T» presented Hitler and Mussolini as a comic strip."