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title: Untitled (Uncle Sam with hat before the Union Jack at half-staff)
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description: Uncle Sam, with bowed head, holds his star-spangled hat against his chest before a Union Jack hanging low on a flagpole. There is no text.
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[![Untitled, 1952 US cartoon: Uncle Sam, with bowed head, holds his star-spangled hat against his chest before a Union Jack](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/berryman-uncle-sam-salutes-union-jack-half-mast-1952.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/berryman-uncle-sam-salutes-union-jack-half-mast-1952.jpg)

# Untitled (Uncle Sam with hat before the Union Jack at half-staff)

Uncle Sam, with bowed head, holds his star-spangled hat against his chest before a Union Jack hanging low on a flagpole. There is no text. Transfer is the tell: national symbols carry the mourning sentiment.

## Propaganda techniques used in this cartoon

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

[← Youth Library (English-language poster distributed in Asia)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/youth-library-english-1952/) [對自由世界 / 共產主義下的犧牲者 (For a Free World / Victims of Communism; Chinese poster distributed in Asia) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/for-a-free-world-victims-of-communism-chinese-1952/)

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