Cambodian Army Vs. Communists #3 (Khmer-language poster distributed in Cambodia)
A Khmer-language photo sheet on yellow stock with a red Khmer headline and a boxed paragraph of text. Six captioned photographs show a man in a white uniform and embroidered cap leaning to a young man, a flag presentation to soldiers, troops marching with a flag before a palace building, a column of soldiers, an armoured car and a ceremony before a pavilion. The tell is transfer: royal and state ceremony is attached to the army.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- June 3, 1952
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- U.S. Information Agency (predecessor: State Department International Information and Educational Exchange Program), Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia series
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Truman Administration
- Leader
- Harry S. Truman
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Theme
- War and the military
- Event
- Cold War
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), Record Group 306, , retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work; NARA RG 306)
U.S. Information Agency / Department of State, June 3, 1952. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 5729927, 306-PPA-28).
Text on the object
[Khmer-script headline, six photo captions and a boxed paragraph of about four paragraphs; not legibly transcribable from the available image scan - [illegible]]
Headline per NARA's English title: 'Cambodian Army Vs. Communists #3'. The Khmer captions and body paragraph are not translated.
Khmer script is small in the scan; text is left unrendered rather than guessed.
