Cock Robin

The two great lords of British journalism. Baron Beaverbrook and Viscount Rothermere, cracked a joke, last week, at all politicians concerned howsoever remotely with the now defunct Anglo-French secret naval Pact (TIME, Aug. 13 et seq.).

The great lords' joke was a cartoon by "Low"' (famed David Low), which appeared in The Evening Standard, a paper owned jointly by Beaverbrook and Rothermere but controlled by the former. Cartoonist "Low" took as his theme a new version of the old song "Who Killed Cock Robin?" illustrating each verse as follows:

Picture: Two Sparrows

(With the faces of Baron Beaverbrook and William Randolph Hearst, respectively the British and U. S. exposers of the Pact)

Verse: WHO KILLED THE PACT?

"We," said the Press,

"We published the mess

"We killed the pact."

Picture: A Fly

(Face of Sir Austen Chamberlain, British Foreign Secretary)

Verse: WHO SAW IT DIE?

"I," said Sir Eyeglass,

"With my little spyglass

"I saw it die."

A Cock

(French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand) WHO SAW ITS BLOOD?

"I," said M. Briand

"Je vois toujours le sang

"I saw its blood."

Beetle

(Acting British Foreign Secretary Baron Cushendun)

WHO'LL MAKE ITS SHROUD?

"I," said Lord Cush

"In secret, hush, hush,

"I'll make its shroud."

Pig (with bristles)

(Benito Mussolini)

WHO'LL TOLL THE BELL?

"I," said the Duce,

"Glad of the excuse,

"I'll toll the bell."

American Eagle*

(Calvin Coolidge)

WHO'LL DIG THE GRAVE?

"I" said Cool Cal.

"Sure, I'll say I shall!

"I'll dig its grave."

British Lion

(Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin)

WHO'LL SING THE PSALM?

"I," said poor Stanley,

"In tones soft but manly,

"I'll sing the psalm."

* Cartooned to resemble both a Crow and the President.