I Just Can't Stand Secrets
A bearded figure labelled Congress holds up a key tagged 'December 7, 1944' and tells an elephant in a robe labelled G.O.P., 'Keep away from that box, Pandora!', beside a locked chest marked 'Pearl Harbor Court Martial'. The cartoon casts the Republican Party as Pandora, an allusion-based label; the technique fit is weak because it is a political allegory.
Propaganda techniques used in this cartoon
- Date
- June 9, 1944
- 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
- Themes
- Elections and party politics, 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 (NARA), 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, Jim Berryman Political Cartoons (NAID 5730852), item 5743134 (NAID 5743134).
Text on the object
DECEMBER 7, 1944 KEEP AWAY FROM THAT BOX, PANDORA! CONGRESS PEARL HARBOR COURT MARTIAL G.O.P. Jim Berryman
