---
title: Cartoon of Roosevelt, Churchill and Chiang Kai-shek, Djawa Baroe, Java (1 June 1943)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/roosevelt-churchill-chiang-cartoon-djawa-baroe-1943/
description: Black-and-white halftone cartoon from an Indonesian-language magazine.
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** Wartime caricature of three named Allied leaders with distorted faces. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![Cartoon of Roosevelt, Churchill and Chiang Kai-shek, Djawa Baroe, Java (1 June 1943)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/roosevelt-churchill-chiang-cartoon-djawa-baroe-1943.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/roosevelt-churchill-chiang-cartoon-djawa-baroe-1943.jpg)

# Cartoon of Roosevelt, Churchill and Chiang Kai-shek, Djawa Baroe, Java (1 June 1943)

Black-and-white halftone cartoon from an Indonesian-language magazine. Three labelled figures, 'ROOSEVELT (Amerika)', 'CHURCHILL (Inggeris)' and 'CHIANG KAI SEK', are drawn as a tangle on a wheeled frame: Roosevelt, wide-eyed, brandishes a sword; Churchill hunches at the handle; Chiang lies underneath, tearful. The tell of name-calling is the drawing itself: distorted faces and a pratfall pose do the insulting, with the only text being the name labels.

## Text on the object

Original (Indonesian (Latin script, pre-1947 spelling)) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
ROOSEVELT
(Amerika)
CHURCHILL
(Inggeris)
CHIANG
KAI SEK
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
ROOSEVELT (America) / CHURCHILL (Britain) / CHIANG KAI SHEK
```

Only the three name labels are printed on the cartoon. Translation is a literal machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader.

[← Poster 'Nippon Mengoeasai Laoetan' (Japan controls the seas), Djawa Baroe, Java (1 June 1943)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/nippon-mengoeasai-laoetan-djawa-baroe-1943/) [Cover of the Japanese magazine Manga (漫画), August 1943: caricature of Franklin D. Roosevelt →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/manga-magazine-roosevelt-cover-1943/)

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