No War Talk! Attorney General Gregory says: Obey the Law – Historic Print
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This rare historic image captures No War Talk! Attorney General Gregory says: Obey the Law in remarkable detail. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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No War Talk! Attorney General Gregory says: Obey the Law
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Few posters of the war years speak as bluntly as this one, which tells citizens to stop talking about the war and simply obey the law. Its headline names Attorney General Thomas Watt Gregory, whose Justice Department enforced the Espionage Act, passed in June 1917, weeks after the United States entered the war. Posters like this were part of a broader push to discourage criticism of the war effort and to curb dissent. Worth noticing is how the message treats public speech as a legal matter, not only a question of patriotism.
| Original scan | 4,443 × 3,610 px · prints to 15 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-222358 |
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