--- title: 'La Guerra Ilustrada: Noticias de las Americas, No. 4 [The War Illustrated: News of the Americas]' url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/us-ociaa-la-guerra-ilustrada-no-4-spanish-1942/ description: A photo-collage news sheet shows US paratroopers, a Midway commemoration parade, US motor torpedo boats and Japanese prisoners behind barbed wire. section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. La Guerra Ilustrada: Noticias de las Americas, No. 4 [The War [![La Guerra Ilustrada: Noticias de las Americas, No. 4 \[The War Illustrated: News of the Americas\], 1942 US poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/us-ociaa-la-guerra-ilustrada-no-4-spanish-1942.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/us-ociaa-la-guerra-ilustrada-no-4-spanish-1942.jpg) # La Guerra Ilustrada: Noticias de las Americas, No. 4 [The War Illustrated: News of the Americas] A photo-collage news sheet shows US paratroopers, a Midway commemoration parade, US motor torpedo boats and Japanese prisoners behind barbed wire, plus Brazilian president Vargas shaking hands with US Navy Secretary Knox. Only Allied strength and cooperation are pictured (card-stacking), and the handshake and flags attach US prestige to the Latin American partner (transfer). ## Propaganda techniques used in this poster [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) ## Text on the object Original (Spanish) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` LA GUERRA ILUSTRADA NOTICIAS DE LAS AMERICAS Homenaje a los héroes norteamericanos de Midway. Paracaidistas norte-americanos en Inglaterra. El presidente Vargas y el Secretario de Marina de los Estados Unidos, Frank Knox, se encuentran en Río. Velocísimas lanchas norteamericanas en misión bélica. Japoneses capturados en islas del Pacífico por tropas norteamericanas. No. 4 Publicado por el Coordinador de Asuntos Interamericanos, [illegible], Washington, D.C. ``` English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader) ``` THE WAR ILLUSTRATED NEWS OF THE AMERICAS Tribute to the North American heroes of Midway. North American paratroopers in England. President Vargas and the Secretary of the Navy of the United States, Frank Knox, meet in Rio. Very fast North American boats on a war mission. Japanese captured on Pacific islands by North American troops. No. 4 Published by the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, [illegible], Washington, D.C. ``` [← 'La Guerra Ilustrada: Noticias de las Americas', No. 12 (Spanish-language US poster, 'A US convoy')](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/us-ociaa-la-guerra-ilustrada-no-12-spanish-1942/) [Las Américas Unidas para la Victoria y el Progreso Humano \[The Americas United for Victory and Human Progress\] →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/us-ociaa-las-americas-unidas-calendar-spanish-1942/) ## More propaganda examples that use the same techniques - [Fragments of the Abydos king list from Ramesses II's temple, in the British Museum: rows of royal cartouches](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/abydos-king-list-ramesses-ii-temple-british-museum/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer) - [Behistun (Bisotun) rock relief and trilingual inscription of Darius I: the king, two attendants and the bound rebel leaders beneath the winged figure of Ahuramazda](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/behistun-relief-darius-and-rebels-521bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Name-calling, Testimonial). Content note: Shows bound captives before the king, and the inscription records the mutilation and public execution of rebel leaders, as the king's own account. - [Tomb of Darius I at Naqsh-e Rustam: the king in relief beside his inscription DNa, c. 490 BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dna-inscription-darius-i-naqsh-e-rustam-490bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Testimonial, Card stacking) - [Line drawing of the Great Kadesh battle relief on the walls of the Ramesseum, from Breasted's History of Egypt](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kadesh-relief-ramesseum-breasted-drawing-1275bce/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer). Content note: A drawing of an Egyptian royal battle relief showing Hittite soldiers and horses killed and drowned, as the king's monument presented the battle; it is a one-sided image made by the winning side's own account. - [Persepolis, Apadana staircase relief: a figure with an animal from a procession of delegations, early fifth century BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/persepolis-apadana-delegate-relief-500bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Manufactured consensus) - [Alabaster relief, Assyrian troops storming a citadel, from Nineveh (reign of Sennacherib)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/relief-sennacherib-storming-citadel-nineveh-704bce/) (Neo Assyrian Empire · 0000 · Card stacking). Content note: An Assyrian palace relief of troops storming a fortified city, with a file of figures below; Assyrian royal reliefs and texts record killing, mutilation and deportation, shown as carved, with the historical context and scholarly dispute on the regime page. - [Colour lithograph of the Latin text of the Res Gestae Divi Augusti on the wall of the temple of Roma and Augustus at Ancyra, with the heading in large letters (Perrot, Guillaume and Delbet, 1872)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/lithograph-res-gestae-ancyra-heading-0014/) (Roman Empire · 0014 · Card stacking, Glittering generalities) - [Silver denarius of Vespasian, reverse IVDAEA with a trophy of arms and a seated mourning woman](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/denarius-vespasian-judaea-capta-0070/) (Roman Empire · 0070 · Card stacking). Content note: A Roman victory coin showing a mourning female figure as the personification of the conquered province of Judaea after the Roman suppression of the Jewish revolt; shown as struck, with the historical context on the regime page.