Content note: Caricature cartoon of a Stalin-like figure leading a Chinese-capped man by a nose-rope over an emaciated figure labelled "Thai people", kept whole. This object is shown as it was published. Why
Not to Be Associated With..! (Thai poster, yoke and nose-rope caricature)
A Thai-language cartoon poster. A moustached, Stalin-like figure with a red star on his tunic grips a hammer-and-sickle yoke clamped on an emaciated figure labelled 'Thai people' and leads a smaller man in a Chinese-style cap by a rope through his nose. The headline 'Not to be associated with..!' tells viewers what to feel; the picture works by the stigma label and by staging servitude as the outcome.
- Date
- 1952
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- U.S. Department of State, International Information Administration (records later held by the U.S. Information Agency)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Truman Administration
- Leader
- Harry S. Truman
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Demonize
- Techniques
- Name-callingFear appeal
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NAID 5729923); image copy via Wikimedia Commons, retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
U.S. Department of State / U.S. Information Agency. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 5729923). Item page: Use Restriction Unrestricted.
Text on the object
ไม่ควรคบ..! ประชาชนไทย
Not to be associated with..! [Should not be befriended..!] Thai people
Thai headline at upper left; the words 'ประชาชนไทย' are printed on the cloth around the prostrate figure at left. FRAME translation (machine, not fluent-reader verified).
