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Shows Harold Macmillan stood beside a man putting up a poster reading: 'You've Never Had It So Good. Vote Tory'.
Creator: Abraham; Abu (1924-2002); cartoonist

Shows two men sat around a table with three empty chairs, staring morosely at a sheet of paper reading: 'H-Bomb Disarmament Africa Asia'. A plaque on the table reads: 'SUMMIT'.
Creator: Abraham; Abu (1924-2002); cartoonist

Cartoon shows General Franco and Verwoerd (then Prime Minister of South Africa) painting 'LONG LIVE THE...' on to banners. They look at each other questioningly, struggling to spell 'FREE WORLD'.
Creator: Abraham; Abu (1924-2002); cartoonist

Cartoon depicts Harold Macmillan (then Prime Minister) driving a machine to lay asphalt on the roads. Four trucks marked: Science, Education, Industrial Expansion and Employment wait for the road to be laid. One truck driver reads a newspaper with the hedaline: 'SOVIET 7-YR PLAN'. This parodies the 1959 Conservative manifesto to improve British roads.
Creator: Abraham; Abu (1924-2002); cartoonist

Shows Harold Macmillan, António de Oliveira Salazar (Portuguese Prime Minister), De Gaulle and Verwoerd making a toast to partnership with South African sherry. Behind them a poster reads: 'U.N. News: 67 nations voted for resolution on Human Rights in S. Africa, Britain, Portugal and France. Opposed. Nov.10.1959.'
Creator: Abraham; Abu (1924-2002); cartoonist

Cartoon depicts President Eisenhower and Khrushchev (First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union) pulling carts filled with nuclear missiles ready for Italy, Greece and Albania. Disappointed, they read a notice held by another reading: 'Plan for nuclear free zone in Central Europe'.
Creator: Abraham; Abu (1924-2002); cartoonist

Abu depicts Verwoerd (Prime Minister of South Africa) standing beside a brutal image of a massacre and subsequently asking: 'Where's my M.B.E?'
Creator: Abraham; Abu (1924-2002); cartoonist

5 b/w editorial cartoons produced by Abu Abraham for the Observer, 1960.
Creator: Abraham; Abu (1924-2002); cartoonist

Cartoon showing a gentleman writing a letter to the Pope while rockets fly through the air in the background.
Creator: Abraham; Abu (1924-2002); cartoonist

Cartoon showing two London policemen deliberating the political stance of a gentleman holding a plaque saying 'H.M. Government deeply sympathises "with all people of South Africa."'
Creator: Abraham; Abu (1924-2002); cartoonist