The 90 million Americans who may go to work for Hitler

Good Neighbors or Good Nazis? TIME Magazine will let you know!

“True words and straight facts are weapons – weapons to be turned against ignorance, indifference. and fear. TIME is supplying these words and straight facts in a battle unaccompanied by gunfire – but as critical to the U.S. as Saratoga or Gettysburg.”

This interesting advertisement for TIME Magazine and the freedom of the press was published in a November 1940 issue of Fortune Magazine. It leverages the threat of Hitler’s interest in South America to encourage concern about the geopolitical implications of a Nazi takeover. An anonymous map shows a looming shadow lurking over the Atlantic.