Não deixemos o Eixo meter as garras nas Américas [Let us not let the Axis sink its claws into the Americas]

A pale clawing hand, its cuff banded with a swastika on a rising-sun flag, reaches over a globe and is pierced in the palm by a rifle bayonet, a drop of blood falling. The Portuguese slogan casts the Axis as a predator ('claws') and the image supplies the threat (fear appeal) and the animal-hand label for the enemy (name-calling).

Propaganda techniques used in this poster

Fear appealName-calling

Date

1941

Period

Second World War

Made by

Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs (Coordenador de Assuntos Inter-americanos), Washington; artist Gaydos

Region

North America

Country

United States

Medium

Poster

Issuer type

State

Regime

Roosevelt Administration

Leader

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Audience

Foreign public

Purpose

Persuade or win support

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 (US federal government work)
Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, Washington, D.C.; National Archives and Records Administration, NARA ID 44268185 (44-PF-843).

não deixemos o eixo
meter as garras
NAS AMÉRICAS

Publicado pelo Coordenador de Assuntos Inter-americanos, E.U.A.

[signature:] GAYDOS

let us not let the Axis
sink its claws
INTO THE AMERICAS

Published by the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, U.S.A.

[signature:] GAYDOS