Popeye Promotes The Marshall Plan

The Popeye cartoon character is shown being knocked out by 'crisis' in 'L'homme au cigare entre les dents', a propaganda pamphlet promoting the post WWII Marshall Plan, as well as satirizing anti-Americanism and the Communist alternative offered by Stalin’s Soviet Union. The pamphlet was published in Paris on 31st October 1950 by the Special Mission to France of the Economic Cooperation Administration (ECA), the U.S. government agency, which administered the Marshall Plan. The illustrations by cartoonist Curry (Werner Saul) depict the Popeye character wearing the Phrygian cap (bonnet rouge) and tricolor cockade associated with French revolutionaries. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)