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title: Mothers let them go - give them a chance of greater safety and health (Ministry of Health Evacuation Scheme)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/mothers-let-them-go-evacuation-1939/
description: A photograph shows two children in coats and a blanket, the boy with an arm round the girl, under the headline asking mothers to let them go.
section: Collection
---

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[![Mothers let them go - give them a chance of greater safety and health, 1939 UK poster: A photograph shows two children](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/mothers-let-them-go-evacuation-1939.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/mothers-let-them-go-evacuation-1939.jpg)

# Mothers let them go - give them a chance of greater safety and health (Ministry of Health Evacuation Scheme)

A photograph shows two children in coats and a blanket, the boy with an arm round the girl, under the headline asking mothers to let them go. The benefit is stated only as 'greater safety and health', virtue terms with no figures or places given; the children's faces carry the emotional appeal.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

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

## Text on the object

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

```
MOTHERS let them go-
give them a chance of
greater safety and health

MINISTRY OF HEALTH EVACUATION SCHEME

PRINTED FOR H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE BY J. WEINER LTD, LONDON, W.C.1.  51-2946
```

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