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title: Voulez-Vous un Second Front? Alors, Construisez des Navires de Guerre! Les Navires Hâteront la Victoire
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/transnational-voulez-vous-un-second-front-navires-1939/
description: Four close-up faces of working men in work caps and goggles are drawn above a dark warship against a yellow ray background.
section: Collection
---

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# Voulez-Vous un Second Front? Alors, Construisez des Navires de Guerre! Les Navires Hâteront la Victoire

Four close-up faces of working men in work caps and goggles are drawn above a dark warship against a yellow ray background, with the French text asking whether the viewer wants a second front and answering 'build warships'. The tell for plain-folks is the workers' faces as the warrant for the request; for glittering generalities it is the slogan that ships 'will hasten victory', given without any figure.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)

## Text on the object

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

```
Voulez-vous un Second Front?
Alors, construisez des Navires de Guerre!
LES NAVIRES HÂTERONT LA VICTOIRE

[Translation: Do you want a Second Front? Then build warships! Ships will hasten victory.]
```

[← Trabajo Fortaleza de Nuestras Fronteras](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/trabajo-fortaleza-de-nuestras-fronteras-mexico-1939/) [3,000 Children Die From it Every Year →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-3000-children-die-from-it-every-year-1939/)

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