"Mr. Moneybags is in Florida this Christmas" leaflet, Korean War
A two-photograph leaflet in English. The upper picture shows two couples drinking cocktails at a poolside table under the line 'Mr. Moneybags is in Florida this Christmas'; the lower shows helmeted soldiers in a snowy trench under 'Where are you? In Korea!'. The closing line, 'You risk your life, Big Business rakes in the dough', assigns the war's costs and gains to two groups only (scapegoating), and the paired pictures leave out everything else (card-stacking).
- Date
- 1951
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- Communist forces in Korea (printed series mark in Chinese; issuing unit not named on the sheet)
- Region
- East Asia
- Country
- China
- Medium
- Leaflet
- Issuer type
- Military
- Leader
- Mao Zedong
- Audience
- Enemy forces
- Purpose
- Demonize
- Event
- Korean War
- Techniques
- ScapegoatingCard stacking
- Leader
- Mao Zedong
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- Harry S. Truman Library & Museum (National Archives), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (Truman Library record rights statement: item is in the public domain and can be used freely)
Gene Putnam; Harry S. Truman Library & Museum, accession 2017-141.
Text on the object
Mr. Moneybags is in Florida this Christmas. Where are you? In Korea! You risk your life, Big Business rakes in the dough. [illegible, possibly 傳單] -117
Text is English except for one small Chinese printed mark at the lower right, which is low resolution; only the number 117 is clear, and the two characters before it may read 傳單 ('leaflet'). Treat that reading as uncertain.
