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title: Buy Victory Bonds (woman reading 'Canadians Move Forward' newspaper, artist Ron White)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/buy-victory-bonds-ron-white-canada-1939/
description: A woman in a plum-coloured coat reads a newspaper extra headed 'Canadians move forward', while three faces of a soldier.
section: Collection
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# Buy Victory Bonds (woman reading 'Canadians Move Forward' newspaper, artist Ron White)

A woman in a plum-coloured coat reads a newspaper extra headed 'Canadians move forward', while three faces of a soldier, a helmeted infantryman and a sailor loom in the dark sky above her, over the words 'Buy Victory Bonds'. The tell is that the servicemen's presence is attached to the reader's decision (transfer) and the bond purchase is set as the civilian answer to the war news, with no rate or term given.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
[newspaper masthead and headline:] EXTRA
National Press
CANADIANS MOVE FORWARD
ATTACK ON ...
[partly visible, left column:] ...IN SAYS ...FFENSIVE Rolls back 500,000
[weather box:] THE WEATHER

BUY
VICTORY BONDS
[signature:] Ron White
```

[← Buy Victory Bonds \[3\]](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/buy-victory-bonds-bond-lettering-canada-1939/) [Buy Victory Bonds \[1\] →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/buy-victory-bonds-soldier-and-crying-child-1939/)

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