David Low (cartoonist)

Rendezvous, Evening Standard, September 20, 1939 As Germany and the Soviet Union divided Poland between them, David Low drew Hitler and Stalin meeting over the body of a dead Polish soldier, amid smoke and ruins, doffing their hats and greeting each other with the insults each had spent years hurling at the other. Low exposed the cynicism of their pact more sharply than any editorial could, and he did it from London at the very start of the war, attacking both dictators at once. The grim politeness is what makes it unforgettable: two men who loathe each other exchanging courtesies over a corpse.