The Archive · 1938

The "Big Four"

It represented the "big four" representatives settling the business of Czechoslovekia over mugs of Munich beer and a dish labelled "Prague."

Here was an astounding caricature of Chamberlain, a Union Jack in the. froth of his beer mug. Hitler, a swastika in his, Daladier seen with more perception than benevolence, Mussolini's shaven head and globular eye opening a wide and rapacious mouth for his share of the meal.

Plate has never hed a drawing lesson, said his smiling little mother. He started to draw when he was 18 months old. He just draws what. ever he sees or hears.

On his own initiative, Plate hag been raising money for Chinese and Spenish refugee children by the sale of drawings and paintings. Some of his works, including a large mural representing the history of ti Chinese Republic, may shortly shown in London. es

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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