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title: Chieu Hoi Means a New Life (Chiêu Hồi An-Xuyên)
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description: A Chieu Hoi poster headed 'Chiêu Hồi An-Xuyên' says the An Xuyen authorities help ralliers and their families toward 'a firm life and a bright future'.
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# Chieu Hoi Means a New Life (Chiêu Hồi An-Xuyên)

A Chieu Hoi poster headed 'Chiêu Hồi An-Xuyên' says the An Xuyen authorities help ralliers and their families toward 'a firm life and a bright future', with photographs of a nurse giving medicine, a volleyball game, rows of huts and the Chieu Hoi Centre, and states that ralliers may stay 45 to 60 days. The slogan 'Chieu Hoi is the chance to reunite the family and contribute to serving the fatherland' closes it. The tell is the selection: health care, sport and housing are shown, and the printed contrast is with 'terrifying days in the Viet Cong ranks'.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)

## Text on the object

Original (Vietnamese) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
CHIÊU HỒI
AN-XUYÊN

Chánh Quyền An-Xuyên rất quan tâm và bằng đủ mọi cách giúp đỡ Hồi Chánh và gia đình họ một cách thiết thực để họ có một đời sống vững chắc và một tương lai tươi sáng.

Trong thời gian thụ huấn tại Trung Tâm Chiêu-Hồi, sức khỏe Hồi Chánh luôn luôn được các bác-sĩ và y-tá chăm sóc chu đáo.

Thể-thao, một trong những môn giải-trí lành mạnh dành cho Hồi Chánh tại Trung Tâm Chiêu-Hồi An-Xuyên để quên đi những ngày sống kinh-hoàng trong hàng ngũ Việt Cộng.

Sau khi hoàn hương, Hồi Chánh có thể trở về nguyên quán tại các vùng an ninh hoặc cùng gia đình sống tại làng Chiêu Hồi do Chánh Quyền An-Xuyên xây cất.

Trung Tâm Chiêu-Hồi An-Xuyên, nơi mát mẻ, tiện nghi dành cho Hồi Chánh tạm trú trong thời gian từ 45 tới 60 ngày.

TRUNG-TÂM CHIÊU-HỒI
TỈNH ANXUYÊN

CHIÊU HỒI LÀ CƠ HỘI ĐOÀN TỤ GIA ĐÌNH VÀ GÓP PHẦN PHỤC VỤ TỔ QUỐC
```

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

```
CHIEU HOI
AN-XUYEN

The An-Xuyen authorities are very concerned and, by every means, help the ralliers and their families in a practical way so that they may have a firm life and a bright future.

While in training at the Chieu-Hoi Centre, the health of ralliers is always carefully looked after by doctors and nurses.

Sport, one of the healthy recreations for ralliers at the An-Xuyen Chieu-Hoi Centre, to forget the terrifying days lived in the Viet Cong ranks.

After completing their return [to the national cause], ralliers may go back to their native places in secure areas or live with their families in the Chieu Hoi village built by the An-Xuyen authorities.

The An-Xuyen Chieu-Hoi Centre, a cool, convenient place for ralliers to stay temporarily for 45 to 60 days.

CHIEU-HOI CENTRE
AN XUYEN PROVINCE

CHIEU HOI IS THE CHANCE TO REUNITE THE FAMILY AND CONTRIBUTE TO SERVING THE FATHERLAND
```

[← Chieu Hoi Means a New Life](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/chieu-hoi-means-a-new-life-1965-1969/) [Chiêu Hồi với Chiến đoàn Dân sự vụ Phi-Luật-Tân (Tây-Ninh) (The Chieu Hoi Program and the Philippine Civic Action Team (Tay Ninh)) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/chieu-hoi-philippine-civic-action-tay-ninh-1965-1969/)

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