'I got this at a "peace" meeting. What would I have got if I'd wanted war?": cartoon showing a man on his knees after being physically attacked outside a peace meeting, with a black eye and bumps on his head. His crushed hat and broken umbrella are lying in the street next to him. This postcard was sent in 1918. In 1917 a pacifist meeting held at the Brotherhood Church, Hackney, had been violently broken up by a mob. The attack received publicity through press photographers and a film crew, who had been given prior notice of the confrontation

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