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image: political allegory, the face to face busts of a German and a French infantryman. They glare, open-mouthed in
outrage, at each other. Both hold out knuckledusters and between them squeeze a diminutive and distressed Belgian soldier
text: "TRA I 2 LITIGANTI IL TERZO HA......GODUTO..." (two lines upper edge) translated as "Between two opponents, the third has taken
all"
Exhibition caption: "An ironic view of an old Italian proverb. Belgian neutrality caught between the knuckledusters of
French and German hostilities" | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | German Violation of & 8/1914 satirical First World War & Belgium Neutrality of & 1914 Despoilation of & 1914 First World War & Belgian Neutrality First World War & Italy propaganda | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Retrosi, Virgilio | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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