Who said the South wouldn't rise again?
A soldier labelled RUSSELL, carrying a flask marked RUSSELL and a rifle labelled SURRENDER with a butt labelled DEBATE, advances on a Pentagon building from which a flag lettered IT WAS ALL A MISTAKE flies, with the Capitol behind. The cartoon argues that a Senate debate is forcing the Defense Department into retreat; the technique is a weak fit (name-calling, through the label SURRENDER).
Propaganda techniques used in this cartoon
- Date
- August 17, 1958
- 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, Elections and party politics
- 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, 5743269 (NAID 5743269).
Text on the object
Who said the South wouldn't rise again? IT WAS ALL A MISTAKE PENTAGON SURRENDER DEBATE RUSSELL JIM BERRYMAN WASHINGTON STAR....
