22.10.12

World War II Easter Eggs


A bandaged world, battered and covered in plasters, is balanced on a finger.
A label is stuck in it by a pin : "Chins up and keep smiling !". Read on a large bandage "The war-torn old world !"
1941 Easter Egg. (1941, April 10). The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 - 1954)

When the war turns in favour of the allies...
A large rooster, chest thrust out, leaps in the air.
The rooster is labelled "Allied Nations" and is over an egg labelled "All round improvement in war".
A satisfied man with a basket says "Not a victory egg yet, but much better !"
Our Easter Egg. (1944, April 6). The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 - 1954)
 1941, Ian Gall

A labelled egg  "Easter 1941" in caricature of Hitler sits on a wall above a swastika, with writing above "Humpty-Dumpty sat on a wall –".
Then the labelled egg "Easter 1945" falls from the wall, "Humpty-Dumpty had a great fall".
EASTER EGG. (1945, March 31). The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 - 1954)


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