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title: 'Foxy: foreign ideas brought poverty, suffering and defeat to Europe'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/foxy-foreign-ideas-think-american-1941/
description: A fox leaps through bombed and ruined buildings above the headline 'Foxy' and the text 'foreign ideas brought poverty, suffering and defeat to Europe.
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** Illustration of a fox among bombed ruins, used to stand for foreign ideas. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![Foxy: foreign ideas brought poverty, suffering and defeat to Europe, 1941 US poster: A fox leaps through bombed and ruined](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/foxy-foreign-ideas-think-american-1941.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/foxy-foreign-ideas-think-american-1941.jpg)

# Foxy: foreign ideas brought poverty, suffering and defeat to Europe

A fox leaps through bombed and ruined buildings above the headline 'Foxy' and the text 'foreign ideas brought poverty, suffering and defeat to Europe. Let's stick faithfully to our Americanism over here.' The tell is ruin imagery tied to 'foreign ideas' as a single cause, and the undefined positive term 'Americanism'.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)

## Text on the object

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

```
FOXY
foreign ideas
brought poverty,
suffering and defeat
to Europe. Let's stick
-faithfully- to our
Americanism over here.
[signature:] C R MILLER
[imprint:] THINKAMERICAN REG. U.S. PAT. OFF.
No. 148-COPYRIGHT,-KELLY-READ & CO., ROCHESTER, N.Y.
THINKAMERICAN INSTITUTE
```

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