--- title: 'Anba'' Moussawarah (Pictorial News) No. 33/54: News in Pictures (illustrated news sheet distributed in Beirut)' url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/anba-moussawarah-33-news-in-pictures-beirut-1954/ description: A photo page headed 'News in Pictures' and dated in its footer August 19, 1954 (News Review). Tagged by technique, with source and rights. section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. Anba' Moussawarah (Pictorial News) No. 33/54: News in Pictures [![Anba' Moussawarah (Pictorial News) No. 33/54: News in Pictures, 1954 US poster: A photo page headed 'News in Pictures'](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/anba-moussawarah-33-news-in-pictures-beirut-1954.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/anba-moussawarah-33-news-in-pictures-beirut-1954.jpg) # Anba' Moussawarah (Pictorial News) No. 33/54: News in Pictures (illustrated news sheet distributed in Beirut) A photo page headed 'News in Pictures' and dated in its footer August 19, 1954 (News Review). It shows Iraqi and Egyptian officers on tours of U.S. military sites, a Boeing jet transport, an oil tanker, a wheat shipment handed to the Governor of Libya and a Nigerian child after surgery. The tell is card-stacking: the items chosen are U.S. military, trade and aid links with Middle Eastern and African countries, presented without any other news. ## 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 GEN. MUHAMMED RAFIQ ARIF, Iraqi Chief of Staff visiting the United States, fires an automatic rifle during his recent tour of Fork Knox. Gen. Ali Ghalib, commander of Iraqi's First Division, awaits his turn. SENIOR AIR OFFICER GRADUATES of the Egyptian Air Force are on a study tour of United States Air Force installations in Greece, Germany, and Libya. They will be briefed on U.S. air tactics and see the latest American military aviation equipment. AMERICA'S FIRST JET TRANSPORT, the Douglas 707, is undergoing tests. The giant cruises at 550 miles per hour. This model, designed for refueling military aircraft in flight, can be modified for passenger transport. "WORLD GLORY" queen of American oil tankers makes a trial run off U.S. shores. The tanker will soon be in regular service transporting oil from the Persian Gulf. "World Glory" carries 16,500,000 gallons of oil, equal to the load of a caravan of highway tank trucks 48 kilometers long. WHEAT FROM THE UNITED STATES to Libya has totaled 3,000 tons within the past month. This follows a shipment of 2,200 tons sent from the U.S. to Libya last January to help meet the food shortage caused by drought and wind storms. Here, an American diplomat turns over a token bag of wheat to the Governor of Libya. BOKO'S FIRST STEPS--The Nigerian baby born a Siamese twin, made medical history when she survived a delicate operation in London that separated her from her sister. A second set of Siamese twins, born in the same Nigerian town, have also been successfully separated in a recent operation in Nigeria. News Review August 19, 1954 [handwritten:] Front ``` Captions only. 'Fork Knox' and 'Iraqi's' are transcribed as printed. Faint show-through of the reverse side is not transcribed. [← The Duty of the Royal Cambodian Army Is to Defend Your Family (Khmer-language poster distributed in Cambodia)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/duty-of-the-royal-cambodian-army-defend-your-family-khmer-1954/) [The Juggler →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/the-juggler-berryman-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.