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[HIMMLER HEINRICH]: (1900-1945) German Nazi politician, Reichsfuhrer of the Schutzstaffel (SS) 1929-45. LOW DAVID: (1891-1963) New Zealand political cartoonist and caricaturist. A good original pen and ink drawing signed by Low, one page (possibly removed from an autograph album), n.p., n.d. (c.1940). Low has drawn a full-length study of Heinrich Himmler in his SS uniform, with his right arm raised in a Nazi salute and his left hand resting on the knob of a large axe at his side. Signed (´LOW´) by the cartoonist to the lower left corner. Some very light, extremely minor staining and age wear, VG In 1927, the highly successful cartoonist David Low was persuaded by Lord Beaverbrook to work at the Evening Standard. Although Beaverbrook was an ardent supporter of the Conservative Party, he assured Low, a socialist, that he would have complete freedom to express his own radical political views. Low produced four cartoons a week and these were syndicated to 170 journals worldwide. Low became a leading critic of Nazi Germany, reflected through his cartoons. This upset Beaverbrook who supported the policy of appeasement. As Low observed in his 1956 Autobiography, "Cartoons and leading articles often flatly contradicted one another, scandalizing the worthy souls who saw it as a serious defect in Lord Beaverbrook that he be not one-eyed." Low was attacked in the right-wing press as a ´warmonger´. His cartoons were banned in Germany, and during a visit to the country, Beaverbrook was warned by Joseph Goebbels that Low was in danger of having an ´accident´.