Blood, Toil, Tears & Sweat—Empire Supply Routes—Richard Edes Harrison 1940 map
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'"Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat" // Empire Supply Routes'
Colour printed folding map/diagram of “Twenty Strategic Essentials” and imperial “Miles from the Front”, drawn by Richard Edes Harrison for Fortune in May 1940. Harrison’s message is that the “blood, toil, tears, and sweat” offered by Churchill in his speech of that same month is the human price paid when democracies fail to mobilise steel, oil, wheat, coal, ores, shipping and strategic depth before war arrives. Stanley Baldwin’s warning drives it home: “One of the weaknesses of democracy, a system I am trying to make the best of, is that, until it is right up against it, it will never face the truth.” The threat pose today by Russia gives the sheet renewed topical force: see danger early, and convert wealth, shipping and resolve into defence before sacrifice becomes unavoidable.
Size 35 x 57 cm | 14.0 x 22.5 inches
Date Published: Dated May 1940. Published July 1940
Type: Vintage colour persuasive map & diagram with related text pages
Author: Harrison, Richard Edes
Publication: Fortune Magazine
Condition: Good |
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