---
title: '''Put the squeeze on the Japanese'' (Australian industrial-effort poster, General Motors Holden)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/put-the-squeeze-on-the-japanese-australia-1942/
description: A yellow-skinned, slit-eyed face with a wide-open mouth and a white cap is caught in the jaws of a black industrial press, with the words 'PUT THE…
section: Collection
---

[Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/)

**Content note:** Racial caricature: a yellow-skinned, slit-eyed Japanese face crushed in an industrial press. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[!['Put the squeeze on the Japanese' (Australian industrial-effort poster, General Motors Holden)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/put-the-squeeze-on-the-japanese-australia-1942.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/put-the-squeeze-on-the-japanese-australia-1942.jpg)

# 'Put the squeeze on the Japanese' (Australian industrial-effort poster, General Motors Holden)

A yellow-skinned, slit-eyed face with a wide-open mouth and a white cap is caught in the jaws of a black industrial press, with the words 'PUT THE SQUEEZE ON THE JAPANESE' in white block letters. The enemy is reduced to a grimacing mask and set under a machine, so factory output stands in for violence.

## Text on the object

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

```
PUT
THE
SQUEEZE
ON THE
JAPANESE
```

A small printer's or series mark at top left is illegible. The caption bar 'AUSTRALIAN WAR MEMORIAL' and the accession number at the foot are the museum's.

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