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With the approach of the general elections, South African hoardings have recently been decked with posters depicting a white woman, a native husband and colored children. The antiSemitic, anti-native, anti-British, pro-Nazi Nationalist Party had designed the poster as a "horrible example" of what would happen if Prime Minister J. B. M. Hertzog's and Deputy Prime Minister Jan Smuts's United Party Government were continued in office. Left unmentioned was the fact that custom prevents miscegenation in the Union of South Africa and between 1932 and 1936 records show that not one white woman...
Enfranchised Afrikander women regarded the poster as besmirching their honor, attended protest meetings throughout the country against this type of campaigning. More to their liking were the less graphic appeals of Prime Minister Hertzog, Deputy Prime Minister Smuts and henchmen, who declared vaguely for "national and racial unity," asked for support in the name of the "children's future." That South Africa prefers a non-illustrated campaign was evident at the ballot box last week when the United Party rollicked over not only the Nationalists but also over the Anglophile Dominionites and the radical Laborites. The standing...
...hope the New York World's Fair of 1939 may become the occasion for the birth of the American Poster. . . . Poster production in Europe [see TIME, Feb. 28 for posters in Spain] is decades ahead of poster development in this country, simply because European advertisers have learned the commercial benefits of being outrageously noncommercial in poster art. . . . We have nearly all of our posters drawn by "pretty girl" artists and by uninspired hack commercial artists who draw the same banal signs for everybody and for everything...
More important than these ostentatious good works, however, were the achievements of Leftist poster designers for the Ministry of Propaganda...
Charles II. Howell, Radford police chief, last night told the CRIMSON that a Mrs. W. B. Thurman had identified Burgess from the picture on the police poster, as had two local barbers. The man said his name was Donald Hicks, and gave the Chicago address of his sales manager to subscribers...