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title: Rumania's Day, poster for the Central Committee for National Patriotic Organisations, London, [1918]
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/rumanias-day-central-committee-1918/
description: A cartoon of a spiked-helmet Kaiser jabbing at a map beside a bemused uniformed King of Romania, captioned as a two-line exchange in which the Kaiser…
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** Caricature of Kaiser Wilhelm II in a spiked helmet, drawn scowling and pointing at a map. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![Rumania's Day, poster for the Central Committee for National Patriotic Organisations, London, \[1918\]](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/rumanias-day-central-committee-1918.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/rumanias-day-central-committee-1918.jpg)

# Rumania's Day, poster for the Central Committee for National Patriotic Organisations, London, [1918]

A cartoon of a spiked-helmet Kaiser jabbing at a map beside a bemused uniformed King of Romania, captioned as a two-line exchange in which the Kaiser invokes Hindenburg and the King answers that 'freedom and justice fight on mine'. The tell is the reply, which sets two abstract virtue words against a named general in place of any account of the campaign.

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
RUMANIA'S DAY

THE TWO FORCES
KAISER: "So you, too, are against me! Remember, Hindenburg fights on my side"
KING OF ROUMANIA: "Yes, but freedom and justice fight on mine"

Reproduced by special permission of the Proprietors of "PUNCH."
PUBLISHED BY THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE
FOR NATIONAL PATRIOTIC ORGANISATIONS.
62-63 CHARING CROSS, LONDON, S.W.
```

Imprint lines at the foot are small; read from the 1280 px scan and checked against the Library of Congress catalogue note for the caption.

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