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title: Cut It Out and Lend What You Save Through War Savings
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-cut-it-out-and-lend-war-savings-1939/
description: A type-only poster in red, yellow and black sets 'CUT IT OUT' above a white disc reading 'AND LEND WHAT YOU SAVE THROUGH'.
section: Collection
---

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[![Cut It Out and Lend What You Save Through War Savings, 1939 UK poster: A type-only poster in red, yellow and black sets 'CUT](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-cut-it-out-and-lend-war-savings-1939.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-cut-it-out-and-lend-war-savings-1939.jpg)

# Cut It Out and Lend What You Save Through War Savings

A type-only poster in red, yellow and black sets 'CUT IT OUT' above a white disc reading 'AND LEND WHAT YOU SAVE THROUGH', with 'WAR SAVINGS' in a black band below. The tell is transfer: the ordinary act of saving is attached to the war effort by the label 'War Savings'; the ask itself is a plain imperative.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

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

```
CUT IT OUT
AND
LEND WHAT
YOU SAVE
THROUGH
WAR SAVINGS

W.F.P. 157. Issued by the National Savings Committee, London, the Scottish Savings Committee, Edinburgh, and the Ulster Savings Committee, Belfast. Printed for H.M. Stationery Office by J. Weiner Ltd., London, W.C.1. 51-188
```

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