--- title: 'Anba'' Moussawarah (Pictorial News) No. 17/54: News in Pictures (illustrated news sheet distributed in Beirut)' url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/anba-moussawarah-17-news-in-pictures-beirut-1954/ description: 'A two-page photo spread headed ''News in Pictures'' with seven captioned pictures: paratroopers in Indochina before the Geneva meeting.' section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. Anba' Moussawarah (Pictorial News) No. 17/54: News in Pictures [![Anba' Moussawarah (Pictorial News) No. 17/54: News in Pictures, 1954 US poster: A two-page photo spread headed 'News](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/anba-moussawarah-17-news-in-pictures-beirut-1954.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/anba-moussawarah-17-news-in-pictures-beirut-1954.jpg) # Anba' Moussawarah (Pictorial News) No. 17/54: News in Pictures (illustrated news sheet distributed in Beirut) A two-page photo spread headed 'News in Pictures' with seven captioned pictures: paratroopers in Indochina before the Geneva meeting, U.S. helicopters rescuing a Swedish ship's crew off Casablanca, the launch of the largest oil tanker, a NATO officers' children's school near Paris, an Oklahoma newspaper delivered by air, and an X-ray machine under 'Atomic Energy for Peace'. The tell is card-stacking: the selected subjects favour U.S. rescue, industry, science and alliance activity. ## Propaganda techniques used in this poster [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) ## Text on the object Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` NEWS IN PICTURES INDOCHINESE AND FRENCH UNION FORCES parachute into battle in Indochina. As war reaches critical stage, nations prepare for meeting at Geneva that can possible end the fighting (see Page 6). U.S. HELICOPTERS RESCUE crew members from the Swedish cargo ship "Dalsland" stranded off shore at Casablanca. Here, one of the helicopters hovers over the beach after bringing several crew members to safety. WORLD'S LARGEST OIL TANKER is launched in the United States. The vessel has a capacity of 16,500,000 gallons — nearly 63 million liters — and is equal to the capacity of 2,000 big railroad tankcars. Ship was christened "World Glory." VILLAGE SCHOOL FOR NATO CHILDREN is inaugurated near Paris. The children dressed in their native costumes are sons and daughters of officers of SHAPE, military arm of NATO. Represented are several regions of France, Greece, Italy, Denmark, Turkey, and others. NEWSPAPER DELIVERED BY AIR in the U.S. State of Oklahoma speeds the days' news to readers in small towns and rural areas. ATOMIC ENERGY FOR PEACE is fast being developed in the United States. This new X-ray machine (right) operated by radioactive thulium, weighs less than five kilograms, yet provides rays equal to a 100,000 volt X-ray machine. Bone structure of human hand is X-rayed by the new instrument (above). 8 News Review April 29, 1954 9 [handwritten:] Front ``` Captions only. Page numbers 8 and 9 and the footer are included. The typo 'can possible' is as printed. [← Anba' Moussawarah (Pictorial News) No. 16/54: The Issues at Geneva (illustrated news sheet distributed in Beirut)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/anba-moussawarah-16-issues-at-geneva-beirut-1954/) [The Force That Must Prevail →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/berryman-the-force-that-must-prevail-1954/) ## More propaganda examples that use the same techniques - [Fragments of the Abydos king list from Ramesses II's temple, in the British Museum: rows of royal cartouches](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/abydos-king-list-ramesses-ii-temple-british-museum/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer) - [Behistun (Bisotun) rock relief and trilingual inscription of Darius I: the king, two attendants and the bound rebel leaders beneath the winged figure of Ahuramazda](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/behistun-relief-darius-and-rebels-521bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Name-calling, Testimonial). Content note: Shows bound captives before the king, and the inscription records the mutilation and public execution of rebel leaders, as the king's own account. - [Tomb of Darius I at Naqsh-e Rustam: the king in relief beside his inscription DNa, c. 490 BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dna-inscription-darius-i-naqsh-e-rustam-490bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Testimonial, Card stacking) - [Line drawing of the Great Kadesh battle relief on the walls of the Ramesseum, from Breasted's History of Egypt](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kadesh-relief-ramesseum-breasted-drawing-1275bce/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer). Content note: A drawing of an Egyptian royal battle relief showing Hittite soldiers and horses killed and drowned, as the king's monument presented the battle; it is a one-sided image made by the winning side's own account. - [Persepolis, Apadana staircase relief: a figure with an animal from a procession of delegations, early fifth century BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/persepolis-apadana-delegate-relief-500bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Manufactured consensus) - [Alabaster relief, Assyrian troops storming a citadel, from Nineveh (reign of Sennacherib)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/relief-sennacherib-storming-citadel-nineveh-704bce/) (Neo Assyrian Empire · 0000 · Card stacking). Content note: An Assyrian palace relief of troops storming a fortified city, with a file of figures below; Assyrian royal reliefs and texts record killing, mutilation and deportation, shown as carved, with the historical context and scholarly dispute on the regime page. - [Colour lithograph of the Latin text of the Res Gestae Divi Augusti on the wall of the temple of Roma and Augustus at Ancyra, with the heading in large letters (Perrot, Guillaume and Delbet, 1872)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/lithograph-res-gestae-ancyra-heading-0014/) (Roman Empire · 0014 · Card stacking, Glittering generalities) - [Silver denarius of Vespasian, reverse IVDAEA with a trophy of arms and a seated mourning woman](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/denarius-vespasian-judaea-capta-0070/) (Roman Empire · 0070 · Card stacking). Content note: A Roman victory coin showing a mourning female figure as the personification of the conquered province of Judaea after the Roman suppression of the Jewish revolt; shown as struck, with the historical context on the regime page.