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'Como un Solo Hombre' [As One Man]
A grey-white soldier with a bayoneted rifle strides across a blue field, his trouser legs merging into the outline of Central and South America. The title 'As One Man' fuses the soldier and the hemisphere into a single body (identity-fusion) and puts a unity phrase over the picture with no policy content (glittering generalities).
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs (El Coordinador de Asuntos Interamericanos), Washington; artist Arias Bernal
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Theme
- War and the military
- 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
- Public domain (U.S. government work, NARA RG 44 OWI series)
Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs; artist Arias Bernal, 1941-1945. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44 (NAID 44266052, 44-PF-18).
Text on the object
COMO UN SOLO HOMBRE [signature:] ARIAS BERNAL Publicado por El Coordinador de Asuntos Interamericanos, Washington, E.U.A.
AS ONE MAN [signature:] ARIAS BERNAL Published by the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, Washington, U.S.A.
