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title: '8th National Convention, Philippine Veterans Legion: Economic Democracy (English poster distributed in Manila, Philippines)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/8th-national-convention-philippine-veterans-legion-1953/
description: A convention announcement for the Philippine Veterans Legion. A barefoot man in work clothes carries a mallet and a sheaf of rice.
section: Collection
---

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# 8th National Convention, Philippine Veterans Legion: Economic Democracy (English poster distributed in Manila, Philippines)

A convention announcement for the Philippine Veterans Legion. A barefoot man in work clothes carries a mallet and a sheaf of rice, flanked by two large blue faces of a capped soldier and a helmeted soldier, with a gear wheel and a farmer with a carabao behind. The banner reads 'Economic Democracy'. The tell is glittering-generalities, an unexplained virtue word, and transfer, in which the soldiers' standing is attached to the slogan.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

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

```
8th National Convention
APRIL 16-19
1 9 5 3
MANILA
PHILIPPINES

[seal:] PHILIPPINE VETERANS LEGION * EST * PRO PATRIA * DULCE ET DECORUM EST * MORI

PHILIPPINE VETERANS LEGION
Economic Democracy

[artist signature, illegible]
```

Seal motto is small and partly unreadable; reproduced as read.

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