1941.06.09 “If George Washington came back and saw what’s happened to his foreign policies.”
by John Tinney McCutcheon (1870-1949)
13 x 16 in., ink on drawing board
Coppola Collection

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_T._McCutcheon

On the Purdue campus, where he was a student, McCutcheon (class of 1889) is memorialized in a coeducational dormitory, John T. McCutcheon Hall. The lobby displays an original of one of his drawings, a nearly life-size drawing of a young man.

After college, McCutcheon moved to Chicago, Illinois, where he worked at the Chicago Morning News (later: Chicago Record) and then at the Chicago Tribune from 1903 until his retirement in 1946. McCutcheon received the Pulitzer Prize for Cartoons in 1932.

Isolationism was strong in the US after WW1, and right through the outbreak of WW2 until the attack on Pearl Harbor. FDR was pushing on ways to provide aid and assistance to Great Britain, in particular, as it has taken on the defense of the rapidly growing western front and takeover of the European continent.

Because of the prominent role played by the UK, the doctrines from the American Revolution are used to argue for US non-interference with the War in Europe.