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Jan. 8, 1942, Philip Zec’s cartoon in London’s The Daily Mirror . The caption.... “The price of petrol has been increased by one penny " ... It caused a bit of a stir . Winston Churchill believed that the cartoon, which he interpreted as saying that the merchant marines’ lives were being put at risk to increase the profits of the oil barons, would undermine the morale of the merchant marines, and ordered an investigation to discover who owned The Daily Mirror. It led to “one of the stormiest debates in the wartime parliament,” when in fact all that Zec had meant to say was that gasoline shortages would put lives at risk.
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Cartoon dispute

 Lots of cartoon characters were involved in the war effort. Bugs Bunny and Donald Duck made some memorable contributions.Popeye also did his bit ;)


