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title: Japanese leaflet in English, "Australia Screams" (Pacific, c. 1942)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/japanese-leaflet-australia-screams-1942/
description: Colour cartoon leaflet headed 'AUSTRALIA SCREAMS'. An Australian soldier in a slouch hat, bandaged and holding a bayonet.
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** Japanese wartime leaflet for Australian troops with a suggestive scene and a sexual-rivalry caricature, shown as issued. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![Japanese leaflet in English, "Australia Screams", 1942 Japan leaflet: Colour cartoon leaflet headed 'AUSTRALIA SCREAMS'.](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/japanese-leaflet-australia-screams-1942.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/japanese-leaflet-australia-screams-1942.jpg)

# Japanese leaflet in English, "Australia Screams" (Pacific, c. 1942)

Colour cartoon leaflet headed 'AUSTRALIA SCREAMS'. An Australian soldier in a slouch hat, bandaged and holding a bayonet, stands on a map piece labelled NEW GUINEA and asks what the scream was; on the map piece AUSTRALIA a U.S. officer carries a woman and tells her to calm down, 'He'll be on the next casualty list. No worry'. The tell: it casts the American, not the enemy, as the Australian's rival at home and treats his death as a convenience, in a cartoon with no issuer named.

## Propaganda techniques used in this leaflet

[Scapegoating](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/scapegoating/) [Appeal to emotion](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/appeal-to-emotion/)

## Full record

Region, Country, Medium, Issuer type, Regime, Leader, Audience, Purpose, Theme, Event, Source, Rights

## Text on the object

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

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

```
AUSTRALIA SCREAMS

The Aussie: "What was that scream. Something up?"

The Yank: "Sh..sh.. Quiet, girlie. Calm yourself He'll be on the next casualty list. No worry"

NEW GUINEA
AUSTRALIA
```

Read from the 1280 px rendering; the hand lettering is clear. Punctuation follows the print, including the missing full stop after 'yourself'.

[← Japanese Army uniforms](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/japanese-army-uniforms-identification-chart-1942/) [Japanese leaflet in English, "Don't wait to die" (Philippines, 1942) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/japanese-leaflet-dont-wait-to-die-philippines-1942/)

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