--- title: Can U.S. Have Peace? url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/can-us-have-peace-lippmann-ladies-home-journal-1943/ description: Newspaper-advertisement reprint of a 37-panel cartoon digest of Walter Lippmann's 'U.S. Foreign Policy'. Tagged by technique, with source and rights. section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. Can U.S. Have Peace? [![Can U.S. Have Peace?, 1943 US advertisement: Newspaper-advertisement reprint of a 37-panel cartoon digest of Walter](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/can-us-have-peace-lippmann-ladies-home-journal-1943.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/can-us-have-peace-lippmann-ladies-home-journal-1943.jpg) # Can U.S. Have Peace? Newspaper-advertisement reprint of a 37-panel cartoon digest of Walter Lippmann's 'U.S. Foreign Policy'. Uncle Sam figures, scales and maps retell American foreign policy from the Monroe Doctrine to a hoped-for postwar balance of powers. The technique is one-sided selection of history toward a stated conclusion (card-stacking), with war images such as 'Dec. 7' as warnings. ## Propaganda techniques used in this advertisement [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/) ## Text on the object Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` To appear during the week of September 20 in the Chicago Daily Tribune, New York Herald Tribune and The New York Times CAN U.S. HAVE PEACE? A pictorial digest of WALTER LIPPMANN'S celebrated new book "U. S. FOREIGN POLICY -Shield of the Republic"* * Atlantic - Little, Brown & Co., $1.50 Continuity pictures by Joel King Reprinted from the August Ladies' Home Journal Peace or war for the United States for the next hundred years may be determined by this country's reaction to Walter Lippmann's far-seeing blueprint for our nation's policy makers. Because the Editors of the Ladies' Home Journal considered Mr. Lippmann's ideas in his book, "U. S. Foreign Policy," essential to the thinking of 135,000,000 Americans, they have dramatized his peace-making program in this novel and arresting pictorial presentation. Already, through the August Journal, this brief has entered the many more than 4,000,000 American homes represented by the world's largest audited magazine circulation. But because the newsstand sale of the edition in two weeks, was one of the largest in history - virtually exhausted the edition, we are reprinting the Journal's brief of Lippmann's Pattern for Peace in this newspaper to extend its usefulness yet more widely. In addition, as a part of the Journal's contribution to the making of tomorrow, we are mailing one complete reprint to every high school in America at the beginning of the school year. The Quebec Conference has lent this stimulating exposition of world events added import. We suggest that you give your copy of the August Journal to your nearest school to further this study. LADIES' HOME JOURNAL U.S. AND BRITAIN BALANCED ATLANTIC POWER 1 Our young republic - small, alone - feared other nations might encroach. President Monroe in 1823 made our first big commitment in the Monroe Doctrine. U.S. would fight to enforce it. 2 Actually, the bold commitment was made (as President Monroe's correspondence shows) only after assurance that Britain and the British Navy would support the United States. 3 Thus, with British sea power ever present, the proclamation of the young U.S. went unchallenged. "Unfortunately" - the understanding with Britain ... was never avowed. 4 Like a growing urchin, the tiny U.S. of George Washington's day stretched upward, broadened out as the original area was increased by purchase, war, diplomacy. The original thirteen colonies expanded to present size. One result was that after the disappearance of France and Spain, Britain was the only great power which had a common frontier (Canada) with the United States. 5 It was a peaceful world because, weighing beside slim U.S. armed force was big British sea power. But because this alliance was "informal," this nation grew oversure of its own power. PANAMA CANAL WAS NECESSARY 6 Here was the German marauder... [illegible] U.S. WANTED TO STAY OUT NO GREAT NATION CAN REMAIN ISOLATED U.S. ALSO NEEDED MORE FRIENDS WAR WAS WON - BUT NOT THE PEACE AFTER VICTORY, CAN THERE BE PEACE? YES, THERE CAN BE PEACE [Remaining panel captions 6-37 are set in type too small to read reliably at this scan resolution: illegible] Panel labels and signs within the drawings: KEEP OFF; MONROE DOCTRINE; SPAIN; FRANCE; 1854 JAPAN; ALASKA 1867; PORT ARTHUR; POWER; COMMITMENTS; ENGLAND; PHILIPPINES; WE'LL STAY OUT!; LEAGUE OF NATIONS; NO GAME; THE LEAGUE; DISARMAMENT INSURANCE POLICY; MANCHURIA; ETHIOPIA; POLAND; MUNICH; DEC. 7; DISARMAMENT; U.S.A.; U.S.S.R.; CHINA; CIVILIZATION; NAVY [imprint: small copyright line below panel 25, illegible] ``` Panel captions 6-37 are not legible at this scan size and are marked as such; the transcription is not complete for those captions. [← Can all you can. It's a real war job!](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/can-all-you-can-1943/) [Chairman and President - Canadian National Railways →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/canada-cnr-chairman-fifth-victory-loan-1943/) ## More propaganda examples that use the same techniques - [Fragments of the Abydos king list from Ramesses II's temple, in the British Museum: rows of royal cartouches](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/abydos-king-list-ramesses-ii-temple-british-museum/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer) - [Behistun (Bisotun) rock relief and trilingual inscription of Darius I: the king, two attendants and the bound rebel leaders beneath the winged figure of Ahuramazda](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/behistun-relief-darius-and-rebels-521bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Name-calling, Testimonial). Content note: Shows bound captives before the king, and the inscription records the mutilation and public execution of rebel leaders, as the king's own account. - [Tomb of Darius I at Naqsh-e Rustam: the king in relief beside his inscription DNa, c. 490 BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dna-inscription-darius-i-naqsh-e-rustam-490bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Testimonial, Card stacking) - [Line drawing of the Great Kadesh battle relief on the walls of the Ramesseum, from Breasted's History of Egypt](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kadesh-relief-ramesseum-breasted-drawing-1275bce/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer). Content note: A drawing of an Egyptian royal battle relief showing Hittite soldiers and horses killed and drowned, as the king's monument presented the battle; it is a one-sided image made by the winning side's own account. - [Persepolis, Apadana staircase relief: a figure with an animal from a procession of delegations, early fifth century BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/persepolis-apadana-delegate-relief-500bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Manufactured consensus) - [Alabaster relief, Assyrian troops storming a citadel, from Nineveh (reign of Sennacherib)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/relief-sennacherib-storming-citadel-nineveh-704bce/) (Neo Assyrian Empire · 0000 · Card stacking). Content note: An Assyrian palace relief of troops storming a fortified city, with a file of figures below; Assyrian royal reliefs and texts record killing, mutilation and deportation, shown as carved, with the historical context and scholarly dispute on the regime page. - [Colour lithograph of the Latin text of the Res Gestae Divi Augusti on the wall of the temple of Roma and Augustus at Ancyra, with the heading in large letters (Perrot, Guillaume and Delbet, 1872)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/lithograph-res-gestae-ancyra-heading-0014/) (Roman Empire · 0014 · Card stacking, Glittering generalities) - [Silver denarius of Vespasian, reverse IVDAEA with a trophy of arms and a seated mourning woman](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/denarius-vespasian-judaea-capta-0070/) (Roman Empire · 0070 · Card stacking). Content note: A Roman victory coin showing a mourning female figure as the personification of the conquered province of Judaea after the Roman suppression of the Jewish revolt; shown as struck, with the historical context on the regime page.