Content note: A caricature of Chiang Kai-shek weeping into a handkerchief, with exaggerated facial features, as published in a 1953 U.S. newspaper cartoon. This object is shown as it was published. Why
Go to it, boy... It's all yours (radiogram to Chiang)
A tearful Chiang, in uniform and holding a handkerchief, stands on a small island labelled 'Formosa' facing a large landmass labelled 'Red China'. At his feet is a 'Radiogram, Washington, D.C.' reading 'Go to it, boy.. It's all yours.. Eisenhower'. The tell, a weak fit for card-stacking, is a one-sided staging: an invented message is used to frame the policy as an empty permission.
Propaganda techniques used in this cartoon
- Date
- February 3, 1953
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- Washington Evening Star (cartoonist Jim Berryman)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Cartoon
- Issuer type
- Media
- Regime
- Eisenhower Administration
- Leader
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- War and the military, Elections and party politics
- Event
- Korean War
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), 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, 5743173 (NAID 5743173).
Text on the object
RED CHINA CHIANG RADIOGRAM WASHINGTON, D.C. GO TO IT, BOY.. IT'S ALL YOURS.. EISENHOWER FORMOSA Jim Berryman
