1943.09.09 “Third War Bond Drive”
by Alexander (AW) Mackenzie (1895-1972)
12 x 15 in., ink on board
Coppola Collection
Mackenzie was a student of Van Dearing Perrine and attended the Art Students League about 1915. He started as a freelance cartoonist in 1941 and in May 1945, he attended the first United Nations Conference on International Organizations in San Francisco as a political cartoonist for the New York Post newspaper. His cartoons appeared daily on the editorial pages of the New York Post, Newsday and in the New York Daily.
July 26, 1943: Proclamation 2590—Third War Loan Drive
Recognizing the fact that in carrying the war into enemy territory, we shall need greater amounts of money than any nation has ever asked from its citizens in all history, I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, do officially proclaim that on Thursday, the ninth of September 1943, the Third War Loan shall be launched.
As Commander-in-Chief, I hereby invoke every citizen to give all possible aid and support to this Third War Loan drive, not only so that our financial goal may be reached, but to encourage and inspire those of our husbands and fathers and sons who are under fire on a dozen fronts all over the world. It is my earnest hope that every American will realize that in buying War Bonds in this Third War Loan he has an opportunity to express voluntarily and under the guidance of his conscience, the extent to which he will "back the attack."
