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title: The Jig is Up If You Keep Buying War Bonds
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/the-jig-is-up-war-bonds-1943/
description: 'U.S. war bonds poster: the letters J, I and G carry the rest of the names of Japan, Italy and Germany (''APAN'', ''TALY'', ''ERMANY''), under caricatured heads…'
section: Collection
---

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

**Content note:** Caricatured Japanese, Italian and German leaders; the Japanese figure has racialised features. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![The Jig is Up If You Keep Buying War Bonds](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/the-jig-is-up-war-bonds-1943.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/the-jig-is-up-war-bonds-1943.jpg)

# The Jig is Up If You Keep Buying War Bonds

U.S. war bonds poster: the letters J, I and G carry the rest of the names of Japan, Italy and Germany ('APAN', 'TALY', 'ERMANY'), under caricatured heads of a Japanese officer (round glasses, bared teeth), a scowling Mussolini-type figure and a Hitler-type figure in a swastika cap. Text: 'The Jig is up! If you keep buying war bonds'. The leaders are reduced to grotesques (name-calling), the Japanese one with racialised features.

## Text on the object

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

```
The
JIG
IS UP!
IF YOU KEEP Buying
WAR BONDS...-

(inside the letters:) APAN / TALY / ERMANY

2nd Prize Suggested By J.L. Callahan Dept. 430

Hodgins (signature, lower right)
```

The J, I and G each contain the remainder of a country name, so the letter itself is the initial (J-APAN, I-TALY, G-ERMANY). 'Buying' is in outlined script. The signature is handwritten and uncertain.

[← 'The Jap will get you first if you neglect to protect driving bands of shells' (LHQ ammunition-care poster no. 6)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/the-jap-will-get-you-first-driving-bands-australia-1943/) [This Is the Enemy →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/this-is-the-enemy-1943/)

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