<p><b>Description:</b> Foreign Office copy of first installment of Norman Pett's Animal Farm comic strip.
</p><p>In 1950 the Foreign Office commissioned a strip cartoon version of Animal Farm from the cartoonist Norman Pett and his writing partner Donald Freeman. Various embassies then encouraged overseas newspapers to publish the anti-communist strip. It was translated into a number of languages and also turned into a slide show for public performance.
</p><p><b>Date:</b> 1950
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