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title: ARCS psychological warfare leaflets and unit patch, Korea
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/arcs-psywar-leaflet-collage-korea-1951/
description: 'A montage from a U.S. Air Force history of the Air Resupply and Communications Service (ARCS): six reproduced United Nations Command leaflets in Chinese…'
section: Collection
---

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# ARCS psychological warfare leaflets and unit patch, Korea

A montage from a U.S. Air Force history of the Air Resupply and Communications Service (ARCS): six reproduced United Nations Command leaflets in Chinese and Korean around a central unit patch. One is a Korean and English safe-conduct certificate over General Ridgway's printed signature; the others are Chinese-language cartoons and photographs for Chinese soldiers. The tell: surrender is offered through an official-looking pass, while the other panels pair fear imagery with the claim that Chinese soldiers die in place of Soviet ones.

## Text on the object

Original (Korean (Hangul), English, Chinese (traditional characters)) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
안전보장
SAFE CONDUCT CERTIFICATE (partly cut off)
Attention U.N. Soldiers
This certificate guarantees good treatment to any Chinese or North Korean soldier desiring to cease fighting. Take this man to your nearest officer and treat him on honorable prisoner of war (cut off)
Matthew B. Ridgway / Commander in Chief / United Nations Force (printed signature block, partly cut off)

救你的命現在就是時候了
(…)軍官們正在歡慶
這是送來補充你們的精兵 (last character cut off)
中共士兵替蘇俄送(…)
自古以來中國人 / 一向奮勇抵抗北(…) / 的野蠻的異(…)
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
Safe conduct. Attention U.N. soldiers: this certificate guarantees good treatment to any Chinese or North Korean soldier who wants to stop fighting. Take this man to your nearest officer and treat him as an honorable prisoner of war.

To save your life, now is the time. / (...) officers are celebrating. / These are sent to reinforce your elite troops. / Chinese Communist soldiers are being sent [line cut off] in place of the Soviets. / Since ancient times the Chinese people have always fought bravely against the barbarous [peoples] of the north [lines cut off].
```

Read from a 1280 px reproduction of a montage; every Chinese and Korean fragment is cut by the panel edges or the patch. The English block is fully legible only in its upper lines. Parentheses mark cut-off text; the characters 替蘇俄送 are visible and the rest of that line is not.

[← "100% unserer Belegschaft sind gegen Remilitarisierung": factory gate boards, Werk Fortschritt II, Berlin](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gdr-100-percent-workforce-board-fortschritt-berlin-1950/) [Công dụng duy nhứt của giấy bạc Hồ-Chí-Minh (The Only Use of Ho Chi Minh's Banknote), leaflet imitating a 50-dong note →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/cong-dung-duy-nhut-giay-bac-ho-chi-minh-1951/)

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- [Miniature of Pope Urban II at the Council of Clermont, Les Passages d'outremer (BnF Fr. 5594, fol. 19r)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/passages-doutremer-council-of-clermont-colombe-1474/) (France · 1474 · Testimonial, Fear appeal). Content note: Medieval religious imagery and a French text describing alleged killings and captivity of eastern Christians, as used to argue for the First Crusade; the text is shown as written.
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- [Sans-Culottes, feeding Europe with the Bread of Liberty (James Gillray)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sans-culottes-bread-of-liberty-gillray-1793/) (Kingdom of Great Britain · Jan 12, 1793 · Fear appeal, Name-calling)
- [Proclamation de Sonthonax en créole, Cap-Français (Proclamation of Commissioner Sonthonax in Creole)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sonthonax-proclamation-creole-1793/) (France · Aug 29, 1793 · Fear appeal, Scapegoating). Content note: Colonial-era proclamation on slavery and emancipation in Saint-Domingue; speaks of slaves, whips and 'Nègues' in period terms.
- [Gazette of the United States, "The Jeffersoniad" no. VIII, 14 August 1800](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gazette-us-jeffersoniad-1800/) (United States · Aug 14, 1800 · Name-calling, Fear appeal)
- [Tyrants Prostrate, Liberty Triumphant (pro-Polk cartoon on Dorr), 1844](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/tyrants-prostrate-liberty-triumphant-polk-1844/) (United States · 1844 · Name-calling, Fear appeal). Content note: Speech balloons contain anti-Catholic and nativist wording ('the ruins of Popery') in the mouths of the Whig figures, written by a Democratic cartoonist and shown unaltered.
- [Brolej Žemajčiaj! (Brothers Samogitians!): hand-painted broken-cross poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/brolej-zemajciaj-broken-cross-1862/) (Russian Empire · 1862 · Fear appeal, Transfer)