Lest It Be Too Late! Help Greece Now
A robed female figure holds a frightened child before a temple on a hill, above the text 'Lest it be too late! Help Greece now'. The tell is the urgency phrase 'lest it be too late', and the transfer of classical-Greece imagery onto present need, to prompt donations to the Greek War Relief Association.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1939
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Greek War Relief Association, Inc., 730 Fifth Avenue, New York; artist Io. Kanellos
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- NGO
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Fundraise
- Themes
- War and the military, Home front
- Event
- World War II
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Foreign Posters, retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Held by NARA, Unrestricted; hosted by owner decision
Greek War Relief Association, Inc.; artist Io. Kanellos, National Archives and Records Administration, 44-PF-24.
Text on the object
LEST IT BE TOO LATE! HELP GREECE NOW GREEK WAR RELIEF ASSOCIATION, INC., 730 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK [signature:] ΙΩ. ΚΑΝΕΛΛΟΣ
