Chitra Katha photo poster No. 14: Baghdad Pact ministers at Karachi (Bengali photo poster distributed in Dacca)
A Bengali photo sheet of the Baghdad Pact ministerial council meeting in Karachi, 3 to 6 June, as described in the text. Photographs show Pakistani and U.S. flags, honour guards, and arrivals of delegates from the United States, Britain, Iran, Turkey and Iraq. Captions quote Iraq's prime minister calling the pact 'strong and permanent'. The tell is bandwagon and card-stacking: a procession of allied leaders and ceremonies stands for broad support, with no dissenting voices shown.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- June 3, 1957
- 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
- Eisenhower Administration
- Leader
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- War and the military, Security and surveillance
- Event
- Cold War
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), RG 306, Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work; NARA RG 306)
U.S. Information Agency / Department of State, June 3, 1957. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6948802, 306-PPB-34j).
Text on the object
চিত্র কথা Issue No. 14 Published weekly for U.S.I.S, Dacca by Jatiya Mudran. Editor's Note :-- Please Post in Public Place, such as School Room, Bulletin Board Etc.
Chitra Katha (Picture Story) [English imprint lines as printed.]
Masthead, headlines and imprint transcribed; the Bengali body captions beneath the photographs are not transcribed in full.
