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Felix Eboue', Governor General Fighting French Africa - Scholar, Statesman, Soldier, 1943 US cartoon: A pencil biographical

Felix Eboue', Governor General Fighting French Africa - Scholar, Statesman, Soldier

A pencil biographical panel shows a standing portrait of Felix Eboue' in uniform beside a map of Africa with Chad marked 'Fighting French Africa', a column of marching troops, a figure holding off two Axis-style opponents, and Eboue' at a desk beneath a swastika-marked hand. Captions credit him with securing manpower for the United Nations and blocking a link-up of Italian forces. The technique is glittering-generalities ('Scholar, Statesman, Soldier'), with selective positive detail in the card-stacking sense.

Propaganda techniques used in this cartoon

Glittering generalitiesCard stacking
Date
1943
Period
Second World War
Made by
Office of War Information (cartoon artwork; artist Charles Henry Alston)
Region
North America
Country
United States
Medium
Cartoon
Issuer type
State
Regime
Roosevelt Administration
Leader
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Audience
Domestic public
Purpose
Persuade or win support
Themes
War and the military, Empire and colonialism, Race and ethnicity
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, RG 208, Artworks and Mockups for War Effort Cartoons, retrieved October 3, 2026
Rights
Public domain (U.S. government work)
Office of War Information. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 208, 208-COM-189 (NAID 535672).

Text on the object

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

UNDER EBOUE', FIGHTING FRENCH AFRICA HAS BECOME AN IMPORTANT SOURCE OF MANPOWER FOR THE UNITED NATIONS.

AFRICA

FIGHTING FRENCH AFRICA

HIS COURAGEOUS ACTION IN CHAD PROVINCE PREVENTED A JUNCTION BETWEEN GENERAL GRAZIANI AND HIS LIBYAN ARMY, AND THE DUKE OF AOSTA'S FASCIST ARMY IN ETHIOPIA.

Felix Eboue'
GOVERNOR GENERAL FIGHTING FRENCH AFRICA
SCHOLAR STATESMAN SOLDIER

THE FACT THAT HIS DECISION ENDANGERED THE LIVES OF HIS THREE SONS AND DAUGHTER IN OCCUPIED FRANCE DID NOT DETER HIM FROM CASTING HIS LOT WITH THE UNITED NATIONS

[signature] Alston for OWI

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