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title: '"Amerikas flagga skall icke jagas bort från haven!" [The American Flag is not Going to be Driven from the Seas] (Swedish edition)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/us-owi-american-flag-not-driven-from-the-seas-swedish-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. (3 of 3)
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# "Amerikas flagga skall icke jagas bort från haven!" [The American Flag is not Going to be Driven from the Seas] (Swedish 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 Swedish 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 (Swedish) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
"AMERIKAS FLAGGA SKALL ICKE
JAGAS BORT FRÅN HAVEN!"
...PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT.

Amerika, som redan har världens mäktigaste flotta, är i
färd med att fördubbla densamma för att trygga haven
för angripare och hålla dem fria för alla folk, både svaga
och starka. Bilden visar sjösättningen av ett av de 17
nya slagskeppen på vardera 35,000 ton. Det totala
antalet sådana slagskepp är nu 32, dubbelt så många
som någon nation i världen äger i samma klass.

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT
```

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

```
"AMERICA'S FLAG SHALL NOT
BE CHASED AWAY FROM THE SEAS!"
...PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT.

America, which already has the world's mightiest fleet, is in the process of doubling it in order to make the seas safe from aggressors and keep them free for all peoples, both weak and strong. The picture shows the launching of one of the 17 new battleships of 35,000 tons each. The total number of such battleships is now 32, twice as many as any nation in the world owns in the same class.

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT
```

[← '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/) [أحدث القاذفات المنقضة الأميركية \[America's Newest Dive Bomber\] \[Arabic\] →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/us-owi-americas-newest-dive-bomber-arabic-1942/)

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