Canada as seen through the Eyes of New Brunswick Editorial Cartoonists:
The Insight and Humour of Josh Beutel and Bill Hogan
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Introduction |
Editorial Cartoon Database |
Classroom Activities
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Josh Beutel, Telegraph Journal, 1980-1-27
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Reference number: MC2806-237
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Scope and Content
A vulture drooling and a chart with a downward graph at the end of the bed conveys President Josip Broz Tito of Yugoslavia demise is imminent.
Title
Tito Vulture
Persons
Josip Broz Tito
- Born May 7, (originally May 25th on the official birth certificate) 1892
- Died May 4, 1980
- Communist
- Leader of Yugoslavia from the end of World War II until his death in 1980
- Led the communist resistance against Nazi occupation, later veering Yugoslavia toward a communist state with close ties to the USSR
- Rift with the USSR beginning in 1948 when he defied Stalin’s leadership
- Established strong ties with Egypt and India in Non-Aligned Movement, 1961
- Suppressed nationalist insurrections and terrorist movements
- Named President for Life in a new constitution, 1974
- Died from complications from leg surgery for circulation problems, 1980
- Ethnic divisions and conflict grew after his death, resulting in several wars and the fracturing of the state