“We can certainly approve of and understand the player with the flute”

From Eagle and Boys’ World, 5th October 1968.

Eagle‘s slightly suspect enthusiasm for all things Eastern Bloc and totalitarian (holidays in Leningrad, etc.) emerges yet again, this time in an article about North Korean postage stamps that somehow takes in “gosh, how exciting” and “silly foreigners” at the same time. The two subheaders being “Stringed instruments” and “Ironing board” demonstrates this duality quite well.

Eagle also once did a quiz so young boys could find out for themselves how much like Kruschev they were.

I DO NOT APPROVE OF OR UNDERSTAND ANY KIND OF UKELELE.