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title: If you must squawk, blame them - and watch out for me!
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/if-you-must-squawk-blame-them-morris-plan-1941/
description: 'Anti-inflation sheet reproducing a bankers'' postage emblem: a red horned figure labelled ''Inflation'' points a very long arm at three caricatured heads'
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** Caricatured faces of enemy leaders, including an exaggerated caricature of a Japanese man with buck-teeth lips and round glasses, printed as published. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![If you must squawk, blame them - and watch out for me!, 1941 US poster: Anti-inflation sheet reproducing a bankers' postage](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/if-you-must-squawk-blame-them-morris-plan-1941.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/if-you-must-squawk-blame-them-morris-plan-1941.jpg)

# If you must squawk, blame them - and watch out for me!

Anti-inflation sheet reproducing a bankers' postage emblem: a red horned figure labelled 'Inflation' points a very long arm at three caricatured heads on the right, one with a forelock and toothbrush moustache, one in a cap with a red star, one with round glasses, a moustache and exaggerated lips. The slogan tells readers to blame the heads for complaints, while the figure warns that inflation itself is the danger.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Scapegoating](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/scapegoating/) [Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/)

## Text on the object

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

```
IF YOU MUST SQUAWK,
BLAME THEM - AND
WATCH OUT FOR ME!
Inflation
[signature: H]
REPRODUCTION OF MORRIS PLAN BANKERS ASSOCIATION METER POSTAGE EMBLEM
```

[← If you can't go across... come across! Buy war bonds](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/if-you-cant-go-across-come-across-1941/) [If you question it-report it →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/if-you-question-it-report-it-blackboard-1941/)

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