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
- Date
- May 4, 1954
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- Philippine Veterans Legion; distributed by the U.S. Information Agency (Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia series)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Eisenhower Administration
- Leader
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- War and the military, Economy and finance
- Event
- Cold War
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), Record Group 306, Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia (NAID 1767935), retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work; NARA RG 306)
U.S. Information Agency / Department of State, 4 May 1954. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 5730047, 306-PPA-146).
Text on the object
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.
