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Year: 1917.

Publisher: Washington Star newspaper.

Artist: Clifford K. Berryman.

Additional information: Cartoon shows the Kaiser’s hands carving up the United States, with Arizona, New Mexico and Texas labelled ‘For Mexico’, California labelled ‘For Japan(?)’ and the remainder labelled ‘For Myself’. The cartoon was drawn by Clifford K. Berryman and published in the Washington Star newspaper shortly after the Zimmermann Telegram scandal, when the British intercepted – and provided to the US – a telegram from German Foreign Secretary Arthur Zimmerman offering Mexico territory should it enter the war against the US. This cartoon was published 4 March, the day after Zimmerman acknowledged the telegram as genuine.