It was almost as if the cartoonists had been waiting for an excuse to sight in once more on a familiar target. No sooner did Charles de Gaulle announce his decision to recognize Red China than the pen-and-ink brigade moved to the attack. The long, lugubrious face, with its dark, pouched eyes glowering past the promontory of a nose, was riddled with caricature. A buzzing gadfly, a silly rake wooing an Oriental tart, a kook cutting loose a dangerous dragonDe Gaulle was peppered from all sides.
Risky Flirtation. Not all the word-men were nearly so angry. Though Columnist David Lawrence...
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