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1907 · 9941 — Johannesburg: The Star 1907. Ephemera. <p>Holland Frank. 'Unpalatable' The Star: Johannesburg April 251907. Single leaf 310x240mm verso blank. VG/- edges faintly age-toned</p> <p><br /> HOLLAND Frank Frank Henry 1871 - 1945<br /> <br /> 'Unpalatable'<br /> <br /> Johannesburg : The Star April 25 1907. ¹<br /> <br /> Single leaf 310x240mm pen and ink print illustration verso blank. Edges faintly agetoned faint foxing to one part of the margins faint creasing to one corner else crisp and clean.<br /> <br /> ¶ One of a series of political cartoons that appeared in the Johannesburg Star during the six months January to June 1907. In April and May 1907 a Colonial Conference was held in London. The heads of government "the Colonial Premiers" from every part of the British Empire attended. One of the major topics for discussion was the tension between the British Liberal Government's free trade policy and a preference for Colonial or Imperial goods championed by the Liberal Imperialists and many of the Colonial Premiers. The issue was important due to the need to resolve the economic functioning of the Empire particularly the need for the funding of the management and defence of the Empire whilst the former colonies now "Dominions" were becoming independently governed with independent fiscal policies and commercial interests. <br /> <br /> <br /> H J Tennant caricatured was a junior MP and a member of the Liberal Imperialist faction of the Government lead by Asquith. He was also Asquith's brother-in-law. The cartoon references a parliamentary resolution welcoming the Colonial Premiers and inviting them to lunch but omitting any reference to the British Government's free trade policies. Like the Liberal Imperialists the Colonial Premiers were mostly in favour of Imperial preference for their goods. The conference concluded without the issue being firmly resolved. Later attempts to establish a process of Colonial preference resulted in the ill-fated Empire Marketing Scheme of the 1930s.<br /> <br /> Frank Holland was a British caricaturist and political cartoonist best known for his comic and newspaper strips produced between 1890 and 1920.<br /> <br /> Scarce. An apt 'culinary' reminder that politics in international trade remains a cauldron of 'soup' of differentiated interests and trade imbalances and the primacy of national or in this case Colonial self interest even within a close 'family' such as the British Empire of the Edwardian era.<br /> <br /> § Not recorded.<br /> <br /> ¹ A single loose leaf p.43 probably issued in sheets from Political Cartons by Frank Holland reprinted from the Star together with a complete portrait gallery of the Transvaal Parliament. Johannesburg : Argus Printing & Publishing 1907 itself scarce.</p> The Star unknown