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
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
- Date
- September 7, 1951
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- Washington Evening Star (cartoonist Jim Berryman)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Cartoon
- Issuer type
- Media
- Regime
- Truman Administration
- Leader
- Harry S. Truman
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- Security and surveillance, War and the military
- Event
- Japan Peace Treaty 1951
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Records of the U.S. Senate, Jim Berryman Political Cartoons, 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, 5743152 (NAID 5743152).
Text on the object
NO! GROMYKO RUSSIA'S PROPOSED 13 AMENDMENTS TO JAP TREATY SAN FRANCISCO CALIFORNIA JIM BERRYMAN
