Old soldiers never die...they just fade back in.
A white-bearded robed figure sits on a stool beside a lectern marked 'History' and turns the pages of a large book titled 'The Yalta Story' ('45 on the spine), under a bright lantern. Below, inside the lectern, a faint figure in an officer's cap with a pipe looks downward. The cartoon argues a wartime figure is returning to the record through the Yalta story; History personified lends weight to that claim, a weak fit for transfer.
Propaganda techniques used in this cartoon
- Date
- October 22, 1955
- 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, Media and information
- 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, 5743212 (NAID 5743212).
Text on the object
The Yalta Story '45 HISTORY JIM BERRYMAN WASHINGTON STAR
