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title: Le pavillon américain ne sera pas chassé des mers! [The American Flag is not Going to be Driven from the Seas] (French edition)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/us-owi-american-flag-not-driven-from-the-seas-french-1942/
description: A photograph of a large warship on the slipway at launch, with workers and crowds around it, sits above a French headline attributed to President
section: Collection
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# Le pavillon américain ne sera pas chassé des mers! [The American Flag is not Going to be Driven from the Seas] (French edition)

A photograph of a large warship on the slipway at launch, with workers and crowds around it, sits above a French headline attributed to President Roosevelt, a US flag and his portrait, inside a blue border of stars. The headline credited to the president backs the policy (testimonial), the flag and stars add national weight (transfer), and the text cites only US battleship totals (card-stacking).

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Testimonial](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/testimonial/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/)

## Text on the object

Original (French) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
LE PAVILLON AMÉRICAIN NE
SERA PAS CHASSÉ DES MERS!
...LE PRÉSIDENT ROOSEVELT.

L'Amérique est en train de doubler sa marine, dès à présent
déjà la plus puissante du monde, afin que la mer ne soit
pas asservie par un groupe d'agresseurs, mais demeure, au
contraire, libre et accessible à tous les peuples, forts ou
faibles. Nous voyons ici le lancement d'un nouveau cui-
rassé; 17 autres vont suivre, chacum jaugeant 35.000 tonnes,
et plus. De sorte que bientôt les Etats-Unis posséderont 32
bâtiments de ce genre, deux fois plus que toute autre nation.

LE PRÉSIDENT ROOSEVELT
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
THE AMERICAN FLAG WILL NOT BE DRIVEN FROM THE SEAS!
...PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT.

America is doubling its navy, already the most powerful in the world, so that the sea shall not be enslaved by a group of aggressors but shall remain, on the contrary, free and open to all peoples, strong or weak. Here we see the launch of a new battleship; 17 others will follow, each measuring 35,000 tons and more. So that soon the United States will possess 32 vessels of this kind, twice as many as any other nation.

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT
```

[← 'Ameriikan lippua ei tulla poistamaan meriltä...' \[The American Flag Will Not Be Driven from the Seas\] (The American Flag is not Going to be Driven from the Seas \[Finnish\])](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/us-owi-american-flag-not-driven-from-the-seas-finnish-1942/) ['הדגל האמריקאי ימשוך להתעופף בים' \[The American Flag Will Continue to Fly at Sea\] (The American Flag is not Going to be Driven from the Seas \[Hebrew\]) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/us-owi-american-flag-not-driven-from-the-seas-hebrew-1942/)

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