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title: New Zealand Fights for the Future
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/new-zealand-fights-for-the-future-nz-1939/
description: A blue-toned photograph of four children walking a country road toward farmland sits beside a cut-out photograph of a uniformed soldier with a field
section: Collection
---

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[![New Zealand Fights for the Future, 1939 New Zealand poster: A blue-toned photograph of four children walking a country road](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/new-zealand-fights-for-the-future-nz-1939.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/new-zealand-fights-for-the-future-nz-1939.jpg)

# New Zealand Fights for the Future

A blue-toned photograph of four children walking a country road toward farmland sits beside a cut-out photograph of a uniformed soldier with a field telephone, under 'New Zealand fights for the future'. The tell is 'the future' as an undefined virtue word (glittering generalities), with the children's everyday scene attached to the soldier's image (transfer).

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

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

## Text on the object

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

```
NEW ZEALAND
FIGHTS for the FUTURE
```

[← An Impressive Flight of the New "Hurricane II" Fighter Aircraft](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/new-hurricane-ii-fighter-aircraft-uk-1939/) [New Zealand Fights in Pacific Skies →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/new-zealand-fights-in-pacific-skies-1939/)

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