Politics / History of France"The Communist Offer to the Socialists: the two in one.Thorez says : Wait; I will do unification in eating you"Maurice Thorez; drawn as a savage; armed with a sickle and a hammer (communist emblems) tries to catch Leon Blum; armed with small arrows; to devour him. In the background; a fire and a brooch seem to wait for the future victim of cannibal Thorez.This caricature clearly reflects the balance of power between communists and socialists after the Popular Front of 1936: it was believed that the Communists would eventually devour the socialists politically.Caricature; 1937 (Private Collection).