Foreign News: Get Out Or Go Under!

No financial review in the U. S. would have dared to close the year 1929 with a full-page cartoon showing the gigantic "Bears" of business depression advancing down a street of impressive financial buildings, while ahead of them with fear-blanched faces flee four men representing Germany, Great Britain, the U. S., and France.

It would not have been American to give this depressing cartoon the caption GET OUT OR GO UNDER: Bruin on the Bourse. But it was very British to do so, and very like the respected Manchester...

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