--- title: 'Anba'' Moussawarah (Pictorial News) No. 19/54: News in Pictures (illustrated news sheet distributed in Beirut)' url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/anba-moussawarah-19-news-in-pictures-beirut-1954/ description: 'A paste-up photo page headed ''News in Pictures'', footer dated May 13, 1954: an Indian physician examining a child at Tulane University with a U.S.' section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. Anba' Moussawarah (Pictorial News) No. 19/54: News in Pictures [![Anba' Moussawarah (Pictorial News) No. 19/54: News in Pictures, 1954 US poster: A paste-up photo page headed 'News](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/anba-moussawarah-19-news-in-pictures-beirut-1954.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/anba-moussawarah-19-news-in-pictures-beirut-1954.jpg) # Anba' Moussawarah (Pictorial News) No. 19/54: News in Pictures (illustrated news sheet distributed in Beirut) A paste-up photo page headed 'News in Pictures', footer dated May 13, 1954: an Indian physician examining a child at Tulane University with a U.S. colleague, Nehru arriving by helicopter at an Indian Air Force display, and the first U.S. experimental atomic-electric power plant. The tell is card-stacking: medical exchange and atomic power are selected as signs of U.S. technical leadership. ## Propaganda techniques used in this poster [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) ## Text on the object Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` NEWS IN PICTURES TROPICAL DISEASES are studied by Dr. R.J. Amruthraj (left) of India, a visiting physician in the United States. Here, the Indian and an American medical officer examine a young patient at Tulane University's School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. Work continues at night at the experimental atomic-electric power plant. Electric light bulbs glow, showing the first known use of electric power generated with atomic energy. Below, a technician adjusts one of the massive pumps at the plant. First production of electricity through use of nuclear fission has been successful in the United States. Now the Atomic Energy Commission plans to build five new large-scale reactors of varying size and cost during the next five years. The aim is the economic extraction of usable electric power from the atom. The first experimental power plant uses atomic energy to heat water, and turns power turbines with the resulting steam. INDIAN AIR FORCE CELEBRATES Indian Prime Minister Nehru arrives by helicopter to inaugurate the fire-power demonstration by the Indian Air Force, celebrating its 21st anniversary. Jet fighter called "Toofani" fires a stream of powerful rockets. Paratroop drop was a feature of the Indian display near Delhi. 8 News Review MAY 13, 1954 9 [handwritten:] Front ``` Captions only. The footer date and page numbers are included. [← How to Plant Trees (Arabic poster distributed in Tripoli, Libya)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/how-to-plant-trees-arabic-libya-1954/) [Always Be Careful, Traffic Safety (Japanese and English poster distributed in Japan) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/always-be-careful-traffic-safety-japanese-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.