• This cartoon appeared in the Daily Mail on July 19th 1945. The Mail was a deeply patriotic British newspaper. It was also very anti- German, like most papers at the end of the war.
  
• The Daily Mail was also beginning to have some suspicions about the USSR by the summer of 1945. Many American newspapers were much more open about their mistrust of the USSR.
  
• The menu refers to the publication of the issues under discussion at the Potsdam Conference.
  
• The woman on the right is Clementine Churchilll (wife of Winston Churchill) and the one on the left is Violet Attlee, wife of Clement Atlee, Leader of the Opposition.
  
• At the time of the cartoon, the British election had finished (July 9th) but the results were not in until July 25th. This was because so many voters in the Armed Forces were scattered all over the world.
  
• As a result both Churchill and Attlee attended the Potsdam Conference in Berlin.
  
• Churchill's indigestion may have come from the discussions at Potsdam, and it may have been made worse by a feeling that he was going to lose the election.