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title: 26 Countries Around the World Aid South Vietnam
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/26-countries-aid-vietnam-1965-1969/
description: A split-panel illustrated poster. On the left, hands hold a bowl of rice beside sacks banded in the South Vietnamese flag.
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** An illustration of a burning village and a bleeding child's arm gripped alongside a rifle held by a hammer-and-sickle sleeve, as issued. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![26 Countries Around the World Aid South Vietnam, 1965 US poster: A split-panel illustrated poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/26-countries-aid-vietnam-1965-1969.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/26-countries-aid-vietnam-1965-1969.jpg)

# 26 Countries Around the World Aid South Vietnam

A split-panel illustrated poster. On the left, hands hold a bowl of rice beside sacks banded in the South Vietnamese flag, with foreign-flagged ships behind, under text that 26 free countries are aiding the Republic of Vietnam. On the right, a hammer-and-sickle sleeve grips a rifle over burning houses and a child's arm marked 'Cong Phi' (Communist bandits), under text blaming 'Red China' and the Front for the war. Aid and ruin are shown as the two sides of one choice.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Bandwagon](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/bandwagon/) [Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/)

## Text on the object

Original (Vietnamese) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
26 QUỐC GIA TRÊN THẾ GIỚI TỰ DO ĐANG VIỆN TRỢ CHO CHÁNH PHỦ VIỆT NAM CỘNG HÒA ĐỂ NÂNG CAO ĐỜI SỐNG ĐỒNG BÀO

CỘNG PHỈ

TRUNG CỘNG ỦNG HỘ BẮC VIỆT VÀ CÁI MẶT TRẬN GỌI LÀ GIẢI PHÓNG MIỀN NAM BẰNG VŨ KHÍ ĐẠN DƯỢC TUYÊN TRUYỀN ĐỂ GÂY CHIẾN TRANH TÀN KHỐC Ở MIỀN NAM PHÁ HOẠI ĐỜI SỐNG AN LÀNH CỦA DÂN CHÚNG VÀ GIẾT HẠI NGƯỜI VÔ TỘI

Nhà In Thông Tin — Saigon
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
26 COUNTRIES IN THE FREE WORLD ARE AIDING THE GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM TO RAISE THE LIVING STANDARD OF OUR COMPATRIOTS

COMMUNIST BANDITS

RED CHINA SUPPORTS NORTH VIETNAM AND THE FRONT CALLED 'LIBERATION OF THE SOUTH' WITH WEAPONS, AMMUNITION AND PROPAGANDA TO CAUSE A CRUEL WAR IN THE SOUTH, DESTROYING THE PEACEFUL LIFE OF THE PEOPLE AND KILLING INNOCENT PEOPLE

Information Printing House - Saigon
```

Translation is FRAME's own literal rendering from the poster's Vietnamese text, machine-assisted and not verified by a fluent reader; diacritics are transcribed as printed to the best of legibility at the image resolution.

[← Peace, Little Girl ("Daisy")](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/daisy-ad-1964/) [A Gesture of True Friendship →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/a-gesture-of-true-friendship-1965-1969/)

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