Content note: 1957 US newspaper cartoon showing Egypt's and Syria's leaders as ventriloquist's dummies of a Soviet figure, in the period's caricature style, shown as published. This object is shown as it was published. Why
Dummy, Dummy...Who's Got the Dummy? (Nasser and Syria)
A figure labelled NASSER, in a military tunic and holding a sign reading DOWN WITH THE WEST, sits on the knee of a larger figure whose armband bears a hammer and sickle, like a ventriloquist's dummy. A bearded figure labelled SYRIA holds a flag reading I HATE THE U.S.A. and a banner reading ME TOO!. The cartoon argues Egypt and Syria are speaking Soviet lines; the technique is name-calling, with hostile slogans attributed to the figures.
Propaganda techniques used in this cartoon
- Date
- September 14, 1957
- 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, Empire and colonialism
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives, 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, 5743249 (NAID 5743249).
Text on the object
DOWN WITH THE WEST I HATE THE U.S.A. NASSER ME TOO! SYRIA JIM BERRYMAN WASHINGTON STAR
