Chieu Hoi verse poster 406a, red lettering (Vietnamese poster distributed in Saigon)
A text-only Vietnamese sheet in red capitals on buff paper, set as six short verses addressed to men fighting with the Viet Cong. They urge return under the Chieu Hoi (Open Arms) policy, promise a warm life and clemency for everyone, and mention an aged mother, a young wife and a small child waiting. The tell is plain-folks verse, a homespun couplet idiom, joined to virtue words such as 'just cause' and 'revolution'.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- July 14, 1964
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- U.S. Information Agency (predecessor: State Department International Information and Educational Exchange Program), Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East series
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Johnson Administration
- Leader
- Lyndon B. Johnson
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- War and the military, Home front
- Event
- Vietnam War
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), Record Group 306, Posters in Asia, Latin America, Middle East, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work; NARA RG 306)
U.S. Information Agency / Department of State, July 14, 1964. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6949332, 306-PPB-406a).
Text on the object
TRÓT XA CHÍNH NGHĨA TỪ LÂU CHIÊU HỒI CHÁNH SÁCH RỦ NHAU MÀ VỀ ANH ƠI CHÁNH SÁCH CHIÊU HỒI GIÚP TA TÂN TẠO CUỘC ĐỜI ẤM NO HỠI ANH HỠI CHỊ LẦM ĐƯỜNG CHIÊU HỒI CHÁNH SÁCH KHOAN DUNG MỌI NGƯỜI HOAN NGHÊNH CÁCH MẠNG THÀNH CÔNG CHIÊU HỒI PHÁT ĐỘNG QUYẾT LÒNG THAM GIA MẸ GIÀ VỢ DẠI CON THƠ THƯƠNG ANH VÁC SÚNG CỘNG NÔ ĐEM VỀ
Long strayed from the just cause, the Chieu Hoi policy invites you to return together Brother, the Chieu Hoi policy will help us rebuild a warm and comfortable life O brothers and sisters who have lost your way, the Chieu Hoi policy is lenient toward everyone Welcome the success of the revolution, Chieu Hoi is launched, be resolved to take part An old mother, a naive wife, a young child love you, bring the gun of the Communist slave home
Translation is literal and approximate for idiomatic verse; 'Cộng nô' is rendered 'Communist slave'.
