Document 24.5 HERBERT BLOCK, “We’ve Been Using More of a Roundish One,” Washington Post (May 1951)

DOCUMENT 24.5 | HERBERT BLOCK, “We’ve Been Using More of a Roundish One,” Washington Post (May 1951)

Truman’s firing of MacArthur brought him widespread condemnation in the press and the American public. Unusual, then, is the following political cartoon, which criticizes MacArthur’s vision of the Korean War. Created by the Pulitzer Prize–winning editorial cartoonist Herb Block, it was published by the Washington Post only weeks after MacArthur’s firing.

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A 1951 Herblock Cartoon, © The Herb Block Foundation