Justice to the Rescue! mb-height 2699 9th February 1983

9th February 1983

The satire is a protest against the introduction of paper money

The Queen and President Kennedy at Buckingham Palace

hardly merited any punishment at all

Justice to the Rescue! mb-height 2699 9th February 1983Justice to the Rescue!, 1876. Uncle Sam and John Bull, representing Britain and the United States of America, are tearing up the Extradition Treaty of 1842. The allegorical figure of Justice, identifiable by her sword and scales, intervenes, saying: 'Stop, gentlemen! You've both of you too many rogues loose, to do without that!'. The extradition treaty was a clause dealing with the mutual extradition of criminals and was part of the Webster Ashburton