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title: Remember Pearl Harbor, Buy War Bonds
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/remember-pearl-harbor-buy-war-bonds-samish-1941/
description: A Statue of Liberty figure holds her torch up while a hairy arm labelled 'Jap Treachery' raises a swastika-hilted knife marked 'Dec. 7th'.
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** Racial caricature of a Japanese figure and the printed slur 'Jap' (the arm is labelled 'Jap Treachery'), with swastikas, as printed. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![Remember Pearl Harbor, Buy War Bonds, 1941 US poster: A Statue of Liberty figure holds her torch up while a hairy arm](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/remember-pearl-harbor-buy-war-bonds-samish-1941.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/remember-pearl-harbor-buy-war-bonds-samish-1941.jpg)

# Remember Pearl Harbor, Buy War Bonds

A Statue of Liberty figure holds her torch up while a hairy arm labelled 'Jap Treachery' raises a swastika-hilted knife marked 'Dec. 7th'. At lower left a grinning, bespectacled caricature in a swastika-marked jacket offers a 'Peace' branch. The slur, the caricature and the knife stage the attack as treachery, a name-calling and fear-appeal frame, ending in 'Buy War Bonds'.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/) [Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/)

## Text on the object

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

```
REMEMBER
PEARL HARBOR

JAP
TREACHERY

DEC. 7TH

P E A C E

BUY WAR BONDS

[signature: L.R. SAMISH]
[imprint: Dedicated to Victory — Louis R. Samish, Artist; Alex. Dulfer Printing and Lithographing Co. and Everett Pulp & Paper Co. Producers] (Copyright applied for)
[printer's mark at lower left: illegible]
```

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