Content note: A caricatured figure in a Fascist-style uniform with a swastika armband is shown dazed and blown off the boot-shaped map of Italy, as published in the Washington Evening Star. This object is shown as it was published. Why

Getting the Boot

A stout figure in a Fascist-style uniform with a swastika armband, dazed and with stars circling his head, is blown or kicked off the map of Italy, labelled ITALY, which is drawn in boot shape; his cape streams behind and his boot soles are visible. The tell is ridicule by caricature: the figure is shown as comic and defeated rather than described, and the pun on 'the boot' carries the message.

Propaganda techniques used in this cartoon

Name-calling

Date: July 26, 1943
Period: Second World War
Made by: Washington Evening Star (cartoonist Jim Berryman)
Region: North America
Country: United States
Medium: Cartoon
Issuer type: Media
Regime: Roosevelt Administration
Leader: Franklin D. Roosevelt
Audience: Domestic public
Purpose: Persuade or win support
Theme: War and the military
Event: World War II
Regime: Roosevelt administration
Leader: Franklin D. Roosevelt
Source: Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
Source: U.S. National Archives, Records of the U.S. Senate, Jim Berryman Political Cartoons (NAID 5730852), retrieved October 3, 2026
Rights: Public domain (U.S. government work)
Jim Berryman, Washington Evening Star. National Archives and Records Administration, Records of the U.S. Senate, 5743128 (NAID 5743128).