"The Gap in the Bridge" 1919

This cartoon from the famous British magazine Punch illustrates the paradoxical situation in 1919 when it turned out that the United States (depicted as Uncle Sam), despite all the efforts made by President Thomas Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924), would not complete the building of the bridge, i.e. join the League of Nations – although the bridge had been "designed by the President of the USA", as the drawing suggests.

Leonard Raven-Hill (1867–1942), The Gap in the Bridge, cartoon, 1919, in: Punch Almanack 1919, p. 483; source: Wikimedia Commons, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Gap_in_the_Bridge.gif, public domain.