Editing David Low (cartoonist) (section)

===Second World War===
[[File:Davidlowrendezvous.png|thumb|''Rendezvous'', 20 September 1939.]]
His works are featured in many British history textbooks. On 1 September, the Germans [[invasion of Poland|invaded Poland]] from the west and, on 17 September, the Soviets [[Soviet invasion of Poland|invaded from the east]]. Low depicted these events in one of his most famous cartoons, ''Rendezvous'', first published in the ''[[Evening Standard]]'' on 20 September 1939.<ref>{{cite web |title=LSE2692 – Rendezvous |url=https://archive.cartoons.ac.uk/record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=LSE2692 |website=[[British Cartoon Archive]] |publisher=[[University of Kent]] |access-date=19 September 2021}}</ref> It satirises the cynicism at the heart of the [[Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact]], showing Hitler and Soviet dictator [[Joseph Stalin]] bowing politely across the [[Second Polish Republic|dead body of Poland]] and greeting each other respectively as "The scum of the earth, I believe?" and "The bloody assassin of the workers, I presume?". The phrasing is based on that supposedly used by [[Henry Morton Stanley]] at his meeting with [[David Livingstone]] in 1871, and the dictators are shown raising their hats to one another in greeting similarly to the two explorers in artistic reconstructions of that earlier meeting. The work has been parodied by several other cartoonists.<ref>{{cite tweet |user=jdpoc |first=John |last=O'Connell |number=1439625651967848449 |date=19 September 2021 |title=THIS DAY in 1939, Punch [SIC] published this iconic David Low cartoon, 'Rendezvous', on the occasion of the Nazi-Soviet pact. It has been parodied often, but never bettered. }} ''et seq''.</ref>

''The Harmony Boys'' of 2 May 1940<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kent.ac.uk/history/propaganda/ |title=Study of Propaganda & War – History:Introduction |publisher=[[University of Kent]] |access-date=26 July 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090530083051/http://www.kent.ac.uk/history/propaganda/ |archive-date=30 May 2009 }}</ref> depicts Hitler, Stalin, Italian dictator [[Benito Mussolini]], and Spanish dictator [[Francisco Franco]] "harmonizing" and getting along quite well. When this cartoon was published, the [[Operation Barbarossa|German invasion of the Soviet Union]] was still more than a year in the future.

His satirical works met much criticism in the British public eye. The British press called him a "war monger," and many citizens felt disdain for his depictions of appeasement.{{citation needed|date=March 2022}}