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title: '9th National Convention, Philippine Veterans Legion: Unity for Progress (English poster distributed in the Philippines)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/9th-national-convention-philippine-veterans-legion-1954/
description: A convention poster for the Philippine Veterans Legion shows a uniformed man and a farmer in a salakot hat raising a flag together, with a factory.
section: Collection
---

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# 9th National Convention, Philippine Veterans Legion: Unity for Progress (English poster distributed in the Philippines)

A convention poster for the Philippine Veterans Legion shows a uniformed man and a farmer in a salakot hat raising a flag together, with a factory, a thatched house, a water buffalo and bundled grain behind them. The tell is transfer: the pose of a soldier and a worker raising one flag attaches the prestige of military service to the slogan 'Unity for Progress'.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

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

## Text on the object

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

```
9TH NATIONAL CONVENTION

MAY 14-16
1954
NAGA CITY
PHILIPPINES

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

PHILIPPINE VETERANS LEGION
UNITY FOR PROGRESS

[signature, partly legible, dated '54]
```

Seal motto read as 'DULCE ET DECORUM EST PRO PATRIA MORI' arranged around a triangle emblem; letters partly obscured.

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