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title: Allies for World Peace (Lao poster distributed in Laos)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/allies-for-world-peace-lao-1952/
description: 'A photo-set poster of foreign soldiers training at Fort Benning, Georgia: a machine-gun team, a rifle-instruction pair, a classroom of officers (3 of 4)'
section: Collection
---

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[![Allies for World Peace, 1952 US poster: A photo-set poster of foreign soldiers training at Fort Benning, Georgia](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/allies-for-world-peace-lao-1952.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/allies-for-world-peace-lao-1952.jpg)

# Allies for World Peace (Lao poster distributed in Laos)

A photo-set poster of foreign soldiers training at Fort Benning, Georgia: a machine-gun team, a rifle-instruction pair, a classroom of officers writing, infantry and a tank in a field exercise, a group portrait of officers from 23 nations, and a mortar crew. The text argues that free nations present a stronger united front if their armies train and arm alike. The tell is glittering-generalities, with 'world peace' attached to military training, and bandwagon, in the count of 23 nations training together.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) [Bandwagon](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/bandwagon/)

## Text on the object

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

```
ສັມພັນທະມິດເພື່ອສັນຕິພາບຂອງໂລກ

[illegible: Lao body text and photo captions, not transcribed character by character]
```

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

```
Headline, read approximately: 'Allies for world peace'. The body text and captions are in Lao and follow the same photo set as the French, Vietnamese and Chinese sheets (soldiers of 23 nations training at Fort Benning; the free nations' armies trained and armed alike); they are not translated line by line here.
```

The Lao headline is a best reading. The small Lao body text and captions are not reliably legible at the available resolution and are marked [illegible] rather than guessed.

[← Allies for World Peace (Khmer-language poster distributed in Cambodia)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/allies-for-world-peace-khmer-1952/) [Liên-kết ủng-hộ hòa-bình thế-giới (Allies for World Peace) (Vietnamese poster distributed in Vietnam) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/allies-for-world-peace-vietnamese-1952/)

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