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
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
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Morris Plan Bankers Association (meter postage emblem reproduction)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Corporation
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Themes
- Economy and finance, Home front, War and the military
- 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)
Morris Plan Bankers Association. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1066 (NAID 514590).
Text on the object
IF YOU MUST SQUAWK, BLAME THEM - AND WATCH OUT FOR ME! Inflation [signature: H] REPRODUCTION OF MORRIS PLAN BANKERS ASSOCIATION METER POSTAGE EMBLEM
