Bajo la Zarpa Británica [In the Claws of the British]

whole: the image occupies the majority, held within a narrow black border. The title is separate and positioned across the top edge, in black. The text is separate and positioned across the top edge, in red. Further text is separate and positioned in the upper right, in black, set against a white background and held within a narrow black border. image: a map of the world, with current and former parts of the British Empire highlighted in red. Chains, held in a lion's paw, link Britain to her colonies. text: BAJO LA ZARPA BRITÁNICA BREVE HISTORIA DEL MILITARISMO INGLÉS La mano de Inglaterra, astutamente enguantada para el caso con pieles de cordero, confeccionó y distribuye estos dias por España un 'Mapa- mundi' en que figuran como pretensiones de Alemania grandes, inmensos fragmentos de la tierra que, al efecto, se acotan con tinta roja, sin más justificación que unas leyendas, entresacadas de cuanto han dicho ios pangermanistas. Claro es que los pangermanistras no son Alemania, y lo mismo el gobierno que el pueblo alemán no sufren ni mucho menos, las lucubraciones de esos patriotas exaltados, y, sobre todo, es un hecho que tales sueños ni son ni pueden ser realidad viva. Cae, pues, por su base, el propósito que ha querido conseguir el mapa inglés. En cambio, no se engaña al mundo con lo que ahora aquí se estampa y se escribe. No consignamos pretensiones: son hechos sangrantes, heridas abiertas y cicatrices mal cerradas con que la zarpa británica ha ido desgarrando la tierra, enrojeciendo los mares, esclavizando a los pueblos. Para la más fácil comprensión dividiremos estas acotaciones en dos partes: una geográfica, indicando con números casi todo (!el total no cabe siquiera en el 'Mapa-mundi' inglés, a cuyo trazado y dimensiones nos ajustamos; desborda a los márgenes y se extiende más allá de los márgenes!) lo que en la actualidad domina, de territorios y gentes no inglesas, la Gran Bretaña. Otra histórica, marcada con letras, parte - no todo - de las porciones del globo donde Inglaterra sojuzgó en tiempos pretéritos con su astucia o impuso el estigma de su dominio por el hierro y el fuego. Las heridas Las cicatrices [map has various place names] IMPRENTA - F. HAASE [In the claws of the British. A brief history of English militarism. The claws of England's, subtly gloved in sheepskin to deceive its intentions, have recently manufactured and distributed a 'Mapa Mundi' throughout Spain, in which Germany's claims to the enormous regions of the world which, here, happen to be printed red, without further supporting argument than a few captions, taken from information provided by the Pangermanists. Naturally these Pangermanists are not synonymous with Germany, whose government and people do not support their aims, who in fact have no desire to suffer the excesses of such excitable patriots and, above all bearing in mind the fact that dreams like these are not and could never constitute a viable reality. Therefore the proposition on which the English map is founded is baseless. Conversely, the world is not deceived by what is shown and written here! We are not propounding fantasies here: these the are bloody deeds, open wounds and poorly-healed scars, that occur as a result of a Britain slashing its way across the world, turning the seas red, turning whole populations into slaves. To make things simpler so understand, we'll divide these arguments into two halves: one geographical, using numbers to indicate just about everything we need to cover (the sum total doesn't even fit into the English 'Mapa Mundi', the outlines and measurements of which we have used here; it overflows the margins and even overwrites them!), everywhere Great Britain rules today, in terms of its non-English lands and peoples. Secondly historical, using letters to indicate those regions of the world where England in earlier times subjected whole peoples by dint of cunning, or where it scored the stigma of its dominion by means of steel and firepower. The wounds. The scars. Printed by F. Haase]

A similar image of a map of the world linked with chains was used in a Spanish pro-British propaganda poster (see PST 13130).

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