Generalissimo and Madame Chiang Kai-Shek
Photographic poster of Chiang Kai-shek and Soong Mei-ling seated in a domestic room with a dog, a framed portrait on the wall behind them. A boxed quotation attributed to Franklin D. Roosevelt praises Chinese resistance and the common cause of the United Nations. The technique is testimonial: a president's words are attached to a photograph of an allied leader.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Office of War Information (issuer not printed)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- War and the military, Home front
- Event
- World War II
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Posters, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
Office of War Information. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-139 (NAID 513587).
Text on the object
"The tenacity of the Chinese people, both armed and unarmed, in the face of tremendous odds in carrying on for almost five years a resolute defense against an enemy far superior in equip- ment is an inspiration to the fighting men and all the peoples of the other United Nations ... "I extend to you across land and sea the hand of comradeship for the common good, the common goal, the common victory that shall be ours." —Franklin D. Roosevelt GENERALISSIMO AND MADAME CHIANG KAI-SHEK
