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This page is **not a satirical cartoon** but rather **government propaganda**. It's an announcement from the Committee on Public Information (the U.S. government's WWI propaganda agency) promoting a series of 30 official war booklets explaining America's entry into World War I and German war aims. The content lists six booklets covering topics like how America entered the war, the President's speeches, German military practices, and the German government system. The messaging emphasizes educating Americans about why fighting Germany was necessary and exposing German authoritarianism. The eagle emblem and formal layout present this as official state communication. This represents the government's coordinated effort to build public support for the war effort through mass-distributed educational materials.

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\eenssaiaameasl rages ADVERTISING. TO. VICTORY The United States Government Announces HAT a series of booklets has been prepared setting forth how America was brought into the war, the high purposes for which we fight, and the methods and aims of our enemies. Your government desires that every American be ia an opportunity to learn all the facts about the war. Every American shou Every American should know how Germany wages war, and the this war. story of her plans for world domination. d know why we entered Every American should know why we must fight on until the menace of autocracy is ended. How the War Came to America A brief review of this country's policy in the Monroe Doctrine, the freedom of the seas, and inter- national arbitration and the development of our policy from August, 1914, to April, 1917, with three of the President's most important addresses including his war message. 32 pages. Printed in nine languages. President's Flag Day Speech With Evidence of Germany's Plans Every important allusion in the text is supported by -notes giving the proofs of German purposes and intrigues. An overwhelming arsenal of facts, gathered from original sources and enabling the reader to look behind the scenes of statesmanship as he follows the President's reasoning. 32 pages. Conquest and Kultur The frontispiece is a colored map of the Pan- German Plan with figures showing the secret of Ger- many's Peace offer. ‘The booklet itself is composed of quotations from German writers, printed without coniment, and constituting an amazing mass of evi- dence which culminates in the chapter showing the German attitude toward the United States, 160 pages. German War Practices Prussianism in all its horror revealed by extracts from diaries found on captured German officers and soldiers. Documentary proof of how terrorism was taught as a military art and prosecuted with relentless in Belgium and Northern France. 96 pages. The Nation in Arms ‘Two addresses, by Secretary of the Interior Lane and Secretary of War Baker—clearly pointing out the reasons that led to our joining in the war. Widely quoted as they have been, these powerful speeches are now reproduced complete in permanent ofhcial form. 16 pages. The Government of Germany If you have ever heard any one doubt the autocratic nature of the German system of government read this description of the Emperor's absolute power, See how the Assembly of princes, the Bundesrat, whose sessions are secret, controls the Reichstag, and how the Chan- cellor boasts that he is responsible only to the Kaiser. 16 pages. Written by Charles D. Hav.n, Professor of European History, Columbia University. The above mentioned are but 6 of a series of 30 authentic war publications. Any two will be sent to you if you will write a letter to the Department of Distribution, Committee on Public Information, 8 Jackson Place, Washington, D.C. Please give exact title of booklet. A catalogue of the complete series will be sent with the booklets you select for your further selection. COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC INFORMATION 8 JACKSON PLACE, WASHINGTON, D.C, Contributed through Division of Advertising The Secretary of the Navy United States Gor't. Comm. on Public Information This space contributed for the Winning of the War by The Publishers of Judge, New York