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AAB/1/1/2/15
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'It is supremely important that we should be able to commit suicide independantly of the United States.'
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- 28 July 1957 (Creation)
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1 cartoon
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Cartoon showing Macmillan and newly appointed British Defense Secretary Duncan Sandys standing at the edge of a precipice with a hydrogen bomb tied around their necks. Relates to a belief within the British cabinet that Mr Sandys had 'put too much money and faith in the hydrogen bomb.'
Creator: Abraham; Abu (1924-2002); cartoonist
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