"Save the Holy Places" - 27 April 1948 published by the Washington Post Source

Title: "Save the holy places" / Herblock

Creator(s): Block, Herbert, 1909-2001, artist

Date Created/Published: 1948 April 27.

Medium: 1 drawing on layered paper : ink, crayon, and opaque white over graphite underdrawing.

Summary: Editorial cartoon shows two businessmen or diplomats, one holds a paper labeled "Palestine issue" and the other holds a briefcase labeled "U.S. diplomacy", the latter points towards oil wells in the distance and says to the other, "Save the Holy Places".