'Peace' assured' William E. Gladstone dressed as an old woman wearing keys labelled 'Suez, Gibraltar, [and] Herat', pushing John Bull into a kissing embrace with Tsar Nicholas II who is, likewise, being pushed by a woman labelled 'Empress of Russia'. They are suspended over a thin crevice emitting smoke as though it was a volcano about to erupt; a cut-away view shows a munitions foundry just below the surface of the ground, furiously producing ordnance.

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