--- title: 'Anba'' Moussawarah (Pictorial News) No. 35/54: News in Pictures (illustrated news sheet distributed in Beirut)' url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/anba-moussawarah-35-news-in-pictures-beirut-1954/ description: 'A photo page headed ''News in Pictures'' and dated September 9, 1954 in its footer: an Iraqi doctor studying at Harvard, a highway cloverleaf.' section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. Anba' Moussawarah (Pictorial News) No. 35/54: News in Pictures [![Anba' Moussawarah (Pictorial News) No. 35/54: News in Pictures, 1954 US poster: A photo page headed 'News in Pictures'](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/anba-moussawarah-35-news-in-pictures-beirut-1954.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/anba-moussawarah-35-news-in-pictures-beirut-1954.jpg) # Anba' Moussawarah (Pictorial News) No. 35/54: News in Pictures (illustrated news sheet distributed in Beirut) A photo page headed 'News in Pictures' and dated September 9, 1954 in its footer: an Iraqi doctor studying at Harvard, a highway cloverleaf, a mass paratroop jump, President Eisenhower decorating a French nurse from Dien Bien Phu, quintuplets in Argentina, and rams flown to Cairo under the 'Point 4' programme. The tell is card-stacking, with a testimonial in the President's quoted praise: U.S. training, technology, aid and military strength are the selected subjects. ## Propaganda techniques used in this poster [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Testimonial](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/testimonial/) ## Text on the object Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` NEWS IN PICTURES STUDYING AT HARVARD School of Public Health, Dr. Sami El-Sheikh Kassim of the Iraq Railway State Hospital observes the daily activity of children at a Boston nursery school. Personal cleanliness--practiced by these children who wash their hands before eating--is taught at an early age. NEW "CLOVERLEAF" construction, part of a New York State highway, enables motor vehicles to cross over, enter, or leave the highway without halting other vehicles or risking collision. PARATROOPS JUMP during U.S. Army maneuvers at Fort Meade, Maryland. The mass jump was made by 450 airborne infantrymen from 15 Army transport planes. ANGEL OF DIENBIENPHU, Mlle. Genevieve de Galard-Terraube, is awarded the U.S. Medal of Freedom with Bronze Palm by President Eisenhower in Washington. The French airborne nurse who stayed at her post tending the wounded while under fire from Vietminh communists, is credited by the U.S. President with "inspiring and heartening the entire free world." QUINTS' BIRTHDAY, their 11th, is celebrated in Argentina by the Diligenti brothers and sisters. The children are seldom seen together because they attend different schools. AMERICAN RAMS arrive in Cairo by air. The 28 pedigreed rams will be used by the Egyptian Ministry of Agriculture to improve sheep breeds as a part of the co-operative Point 4 program. September 9, 1954 9 [handwritten:] Front ``` Captions only. The footer date and page number '9' are included. Faint show-through of the reverse side is not transcribed. [← Anba' Moussawarah (Pictorial News) No. 34/54: News in Pictures (illustrated news sheet distributed in Beirut)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/anba-moussawarah-34-news-in-pictures-beirut-1954/) [The House That Jack Built (FHA Scandal) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/berryman-the-house-that-jack-built-fha-scandal-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.