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title: Don't Evacuate Your Fighting Dollars (Generally Speaking...)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/canada-dont-evacuate-your-fighting-dollars-ricky-1939/
description: A cartoon shows a caricatured officer in a bicorne hat, with dollar signs on his clothes, snatching banknotes back through a bank wicket while saying
section: Collection
---

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[![Don't Evacuate Your Fighting Dollars, 1939 Canada poster: A cartoon shows a caricatured officer in a bicorne hat, with dollar](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/canada-dont-evacuate-your-fighting-dollars-ricky-1939.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/canada-dont-evacuate-your-fighting-dollars-ricky-1939.jpg)

# Don't Evacuate Your Fighting Dollars (Generally Speaking...)

A cartoon shows a caricatured officer in a bicorne hat, with dollar signs on his clothes, snatching banknotes back through a bank wicket while saying 'Gimme back...' and 'Well... I want to buy a kiddy-car'. The tell is the transfer of military rank to saving: withdrawing a war savings account is called 'poor generalship', and the foot line names War Savings Certificates.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

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

## Text on the object

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

```
GENERALLY SPEAKING...
GIMME BACK...
WELL... I WANT TO BUY A KIDDY-CAR
BANK
Ricky RCAF
DON'T EVACUATE YOUR FIGHTING DOLLARS
IT'S POOR GENERALSHIP TO WITHDRAW YOUR WAR SAVINGS ACCOUNT BEFORE IT'S DONE IT'S JOB -AND INSURED YOUR POST-WAR COME-BACK-- KEEP YOUR MONEY IN FOR THE DURATION-SAVE
War Savings Certificates
```

[← Dig In and Dig Out the Scrap](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/canada-dig-in-and-dig-out-the-scrap-1939/) [Don't Fail Them - Buy the New Victory Bonds →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/canada-dont-fail-them-buy-the-new-victory-bonds-1939/)

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