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
- Date
- August 18, 1954
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- U.S. Information Agency (predecessor: State Department International Information and Educational Exchange Program), Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East series
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Eisenhower Administration
- Leader
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- Media and information, War and the military
- Event
- Cold War
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), RG 306, Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East, retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work; NARA RG 306)
U.S. Information Agency / Department of State, August 18, 1954. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6948743, 306-PPB-13d).
Text on the object
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.
