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title: National Savings Strengthen Every Fighting Front. Save through the Post Office Savings Bank
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-national-savings-strengthen-every-fighting-front-1939/
description: Two yellow-and-blue globes, one showing the Atlantic, Europe, Africa and the Americas and the other Asia, the Pacific and Australia.
section: Collection
---

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# National Savings Strengthen Every Fighting Front. Save through the Post Office Savings Bank

Two yellow-and-blue globes, one showing the Atlantic, Europe, Africa and the Americas and the other Asia, the Pacific and Australia, sit under the headline 'National Savings Strengthen Every Fighting Front', with 'Save through the Post Office Savings Bank' below. The virtue word 'strengthen' and the world-wide map link a household bank deposit to every theatre of war without saying what the money buys.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

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

## Text on the object

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

```
NATIONAL SAVINGS
STRENGTHEN EVERY
FIGHTING FRONT

SAVE THROUGH THE
POST OFFICE SAVINGS BANK

P.B. 58
```

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