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title: 'Put the Squeeze on the Japanese: Beat Your Promise'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/put-the-squeeze-on-the-japanese-beat-your-promise-1943/
description: A worker in an 'Increased Production' vest, labelled 'You and I', clamps a caricatured Japanese officer in a vise, his speech rendered as pseudo-Japanese…
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** Caricatured Japanese officer in a vise with pseudo-Japanese speech marks. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![Put the Squeeze on the Japanese: Beat Your Promise](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/put-the-squeeze-on-the-japanese-beat-your-promise-1943.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/put-the-squeeze-on-the-japanese-beat-your-promise-1943.jpg)

# Put the Squeeze on the Japanese: Beat Your Promise

A worker in an 'Increased Production' vest, labelled 'You and I', clamps a caricatured Japanese officer in a vise, his speech rendered as pseudo-Japanese brush marks, while a dagger inscribed 'Remember Pearl Harbor!' lies in the foreground. The enemy is drawn with bucktoothed, bespectacled exaggeration and the worker is the ordinary reader.

## Text on the object

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

```
PUT THE SQUEEZE ON THE JAPANESE

YOU AND I

INCREASED PRODUCTION

RCA

REMEMBER PEARL HARBOR!

BEAT YOUR PROMISE

Form 155360
Printed in U. S. A.
```

Brush-stroke characters beside the officer's shouted speech [illegible pseudo-Japanese marks]. A handwritten number ('3136') appears at lower left.

[← Oranje-Bode, first issue, 1943: birth of Princess Margriet](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/oranje-bode-margriet-1943/) [Ringed with menace! Bar the gates with 'Beauforts' (Australian aircraft-production poster) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ringed-with-menace-beauforts-1943/)

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