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title: Help the City Children - making a new home for Evacuees is a National Service
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-help-the-city-children-evacuees-1939/
description: A photograph of two anxious evacuee children, the boy's arm around the girl, sits above the line 'making a new home for Evacuees is a National Service'.
section: Collection
---

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[![Help the City Children - making a new home for Evacuees is a National Service, 1939 UK poster: A photograph of two anxious](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-help-the-city-children-evacuees-1939.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-help-the-city-children-evacuees-1939.jpg)

# Help the City Children - making a new home for Evacuees is a National Service

A photograph of two anxious evacuee children, the boy's arm around the girl, sits above the line 'making a new home for Evacuees is a National Service'. The words 'National Service' attach a duty-word to hosting, and the children's faces supply the emotional appeal aimed at householders in reception areas.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) [Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/)

## Text on the object

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

```
HELP THE CITY CHILDREN

making a new home
for Evacuees is a
National Service.

ISSUED BY THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH

GREAT BRITAIN
```

[← Help Britain Finish the Job!](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-help-britain-finish-the-job-wootton-1939/) [If you can't go to the factory help the neighbour who can →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-help-the-neighbour-who-can-war-workers-children-1939/)

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