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title: '"A bandeira americana não se deixará varrer dos mares" [The American Flag is not Going to be Driven from the Seas] (Portuguese edition)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/us-owi-american-flag-not-driven-from-the-seas-portuguese-1942/
description: A photograph of a large warship on the slipway at launch is set in a blue border of white stars, with a flag graphic. (2 of 3)
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# "A bandeira americana não se deixará varrer dos mares" [The American Flag is not Going to be Driven from the Seas] (Portuguese edition)

A photograph of a large warship on the slipway at launch is set in a blue border of white stars, with a flag graphic, a captioned portrait of President Roosevelt and a Portuguese headline in quotation marks attributed to him. The attributed quotation is a statement by a named leader (testimonial), and the flag, stars and presidential portrait lend national authority to the picture (transfer).

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Testimonial](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/testimonial/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

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

```
"A BANDEIRA AMERICANA NÃO
SE DEIXARÁ VARRER DOS MARES"
...PRESIDENTE ROOSEVELT.

A América está duplicando a tonelagem da sua marinha,
que é já atualmente a mais poderosa do mundo, para o
fim de não permitir que os mares possam ser escraviza-
dos por qualquer potência agressora, assegurando, ao
contrário, a liberdade dos mesmos, assim para os fortes
como para os fracos. O que aí se vê a ser lançado é um
dos 17 novos couraçados, cada qual de 35 mil toneladas,
ou mais, elevando o total a mais do dôbro do que dis-
ponha qualquer outra nação.

PRESIDENTE ROOSEVELT
```

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

```
"THE AMERICAN FLAG WILL NOT LET ITSELF BE SWEPT FROM THE SEAS"
...PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT.

America is doubling the tonnage of its navy, which is already the most powerful in the world, so as not to allow the seas to be enslaved by any aggressor power, ensuring instead their freedom, for the strong and for the weak alike. What you see being launched there is one of the 17 new battleships, each of 35 thousand tons or more, raising the total to more than double what any other nation has.

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT
```

[← 'Amerikanska flaggið verður ekki hrakið af sjónum' \[The American Flag is not Going to be Driven from the Seas\] (Icelandic edition)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/us-owi-american-flag-not-driven-from-the-seas-icelandic-1942/) ['La bandera norteamericana no será eliminada de los mares...' \[The American Flag Will Not Be Eliminated from the Seas\] (The American Flag is not Going to be Driven from the Seas \[Spanish\]) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/us-owi-american-flag-not-driven-from-the-seas-spanish-1942/)

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