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title: Pledge your conscience to your country
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/pledge-your-conscience-to-your-country-meat-1943/
description: Typeset poster with a red banner headed 'Pledge your conscience to your country', a pledge in blue italic type about buying no more meat than ration stamps
section: Collection
---

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# Pledge your conscience to your country

Typeset poster with a red banner headed 'Pledge your conscience to your country', a pledge in blue italic type about buying no more meat than ration stamps allow, and a blue base bar reading 'Help speed victory'. There is no picture. The technique is glittering-generalities: 'conscience', 'country' and 'victory' frame a rationing rule as a personal pledge. The pledge is quoted in the transcription.

## 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

```
Pledge Your Conscience
to Your Country
"I shall buy no more meat
than my ration stamps
entitle me to . . .
. . . because the rest
of the meat is needed
for the war"
HELP SPEED VICTORY
Printed in U.S.A.
```

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