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title: What Do You Say, America? (Admiral Yamamoto quotation)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/what-do-you-say-america-yamamoto-owi-1942/
description: 'A bare photographic portrait of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto on a red field, under a quotation attributed to him: ''I am looking forward to dictating peace to…'
section: Collection
---

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# What Do You Say, America? (Admiral Yamamoto quotation)

A bare photographic portrait of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto on a red field, under a quotation attributed to him: 'I am looking forward to dictating peace to the United States in the White House at Washington', and the question 'What do YOU say, AMERICA?'. The poster supplies one quotation with no date, place or source and offers the viewer only the defiant reply.

## Text on the object

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

```
"I am looking forward to dictating peace to the United States in the White House at Washington"
— ADMIRAL YAMAMOTO

What do YOU say, AMERICA?

Issued by the Graphics Division, Office of War Information, Washington, D. C. OWI-P-4
```

GPO imprint at lower right ('1942-O-472170') is in small type.

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