Strange Echo

Two stacked panels: the UN headquarters sends out a message, '...and use atomic energy to build a peaceful world...', while from behind a walled Kremlin with onion domes, gun barrels and a hammer-and-sickle door comes the answering cry 'Warmongers!'. The cartoon argues that the Soviet reply to a peace proposal is a name-calling label and a mirror-image accusation.

Propaganda techniques used in this cartoon

Name-callingAccusation in a mirror

Date

December 11, 1953

Period

Cold War

Made by

Washington Evening Star (cartoonist Jim Berryman)

Region

North America

Country

United States

Medium

Cartoon

Issuer type

Media

Regime

Eisenhower Administration

Leader

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Audience

Domestic public

Purpose

Persuade or win support

Themes

War and the military, Science and technology

Source

Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are

Source

U.S. National Archives (NARA), Records of the U.S. Senate, Jim Berryman Political Cartoons (NAID 5730852), retrieved October 3, 2026

Rights

Public domain (U.S. government work)
Jim Berryman, Washington Evening Star. National Archives and Records Administration, Records of the U.S. Senate, 5743183 (NAID 5743183).

..AND USE ATOMIC ENERGY TO BUILD A PEACEFUL WORLD....
UN
WARMONGERS !
Jim Berryman