2025-01 Raynors Historical Collectible Auctions
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Print, 8” x 10-1/2”, withdrawn from Punch Magazine, London, titled "The Police Man's Lot", September 18, 1946 depicts the British Policeman separating the pugilists - the Arab has a boulder in the ready and the Jew has his club in motion. At the feet of the police officer, the Moslem is wrestling with the Hindu. The British administrative headquarters for Mandatory Palestine, housed in the southern wing] of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, were bombed in a terrorist attack on July 22, 1946, by the militant right-wing[4] Zionist underground organization the Irgun during the Jewish insurgency. 91 people of various nationalities were killed, including Arabs, Britons and Jews, and 46 were injured. The Irgun was a Jewish underground organization, founded in 1931 by a group of Haganah commanders, who left the Haganah in protest against its defense charter. The Irgun rejected the "restraint" policy of the Haganah and carried out armed reprisals against Arabs, which were condemned by the Jewish Agency. Many of its members were arrested by the British authorities; one of them, Shlomo Ben Yosef, was hanged for shooting an Arab bus. Direct Action Day (16 August 1946) was the day the All-India Muslim League decided to take "direct action" for a separate Muslim homeland after the British exit from India. Also known as the 1946 Calcutta Killings, it was a day of nationwide communal riots.[5] It led to large-scale violence between Muslims and Hindus in the city of Calcutta Ernest Howard Shepard (10 December 1879 - 24 March 1976) was an English artist and book illustrator. Best known for his illustrations in Winnie the Pooh also a prolific contributor to British Punch magazine for many decades.
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