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title: Just Borrow An Old Soviet Saying!
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/berryman-just-borrow-an-old-soviet-saying-1951/
description: A man labelled 'Gromyko' recoils from a lectern bearing the San Francisco, California seal as a giant three-dimensional 'NO!' blasts from its microphone.
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** A 1951 cartoon showing a caricature of Soviet delegate Gromyko reeling from a giant 'NO!' beside papers whose printed title uses the term 'Jap', as published. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![Just Borrow An Old Soviet Saying!, 1951 US cartoon: A man labelled 'Gromyko' recoils from a lectern bearing the San](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/berryman-just-borrow-an-old-soviet-saying-1951.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/berryman-just-borrow-an-old-soviet-saying-1951.jpg)

# Just Borrow An Old Soviet Saying!

A man labelled 'Gromyko' recoils from a lectern bearing the San Francisco, California seal as a giant three-dimensional 'NO!' blasts from its microphone, scattering papers titled 'Russia's Proposed 13 Amendments to Jap Treaty'. The cartoon argues the Soviet delegate's amendments were rejected and shows him on the receiving end of a 'no', echoing the Soviet delegation's own reputation for saying it (the cartoon's framing).

## Propaganda techniques used in this cartoon

[Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
NO!
GROMYKO
RUSSIA'S PROPOSED 13 AMENDMENTS TO JAP TREATY
SAN FRANCISCO CALIFORNIA
JIM BERRYMAN
```

[← Ti Abono Paaduenna iti Maapit nga Pagay! (Fertilizer Increases the Rice Harvest!) (Iloko-language ECA poster distributed in the Philippines)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ti-abono-paaduenna-iti-maapit-nga-pagay-iloko-philippines-1951/) [For a Free World / Victims of Communism (English poster distributed in Asia) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/for-a-free-world-victims-of-communism-english-1951/)

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