The Amazing Adventures of Archibald Esq.

The Bulldog & the Dachshund

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This war time poster clearly dates from World War II and is part of the British propaganda campaign — along with other such posters, political cartoons.

One of the most remembered of these campaigns is surely the ‘Grow for Victory’ campaign. In those days frugality was king.

Doing without for others and for all. As was also a marked tendency to seeing things in black and white, bad and good, one thing or another. German or British, for example.

It was this tendency for black and white that led to the demonisation of the dachshund in Britain during the War. Previously dachshunds had been very popular dogs in England, particularly as Queen Victoria had several and as in many things, royalty set the style standards. Awooo! How soon our loveability was forgotten, as we saw previously in Mimi’s sad tale.
Collective individuals is I suppose what we all are. As individuals, we embody, reflect and also develop a collective sense of being someone from somewhere with a bit of genetic history. Pomeranians, chihuahuas, dobermans, dachshunds… Portuguese, Chilean, Dutch, German, English, and so on. And into that collective individuality is also the quintessential individuality of the person as a unique individual.

So every two legged and also every four legged is a mix of being a collective individual (whose individuality can be mixed, eg having a French mother and a Spanish father) and being a unique individual.

A fact of being that even the imperiousness of war cannot erase — much as it tries.

Here dog types can also stand in for, or represent, differences between peoples. Look at me, woof! I’m a dachshund born in Essex. A dog of the world. As also are people in the world. Irish in Paris. English in America. Italian in France. And so on. And so forth.

So let’s not only remember the courage, bravery and sacrifices of the war.

Let’s not glorify the memory of the senselessly dead to the extent that we forget altogether the stupidity, futility and utter waste that is war.

Grrwooof! Archie, a peace loving puppyheart

Posted 11 Nov 08