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title: 'Chitra Katha photo poster No. 31: World peace is the gift of the people (Bengali photo poster distributed in Dacca)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/chitra-katha-31-world-peace-citizens-conference-bengali-dacca-1958/
description: A Bengali photo sheet on a national conference of U.S. citizens held in Washington for lasting peace, which the text says drew about 600 delegates.
section: Collection
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# Chitra Katha photo poster No. 31: World peace is the gift of the people (Bengali photo poster distributed in Dacca)

A Bengali photo sheet on a national conference of U.S. citizens held in Washington for lasting peace, which the text says drew about 600 delegates, among them housewives, students and shop clerks. Photographs show delegates in discussion, and the captions state that peace begins in people's hearts and that every citizen can help build it. The tell is glittering-generalities with plain-folks: peace is framed as a shared ordinary-citizen aim, with no policy or dissent shown.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) [Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/)

## Text on the object

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

```
চিত্র কথা

বিশ্বের শান্তি জনগণেরই দান

Issue No. 31 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.
```

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

```
Chitra Katha (Picture Story)

World peace as a people's gift

[English imprint lines as printed.]
```

Masthead, headline and imprint transcribed; the Bengali body captions beneath the photographs are not transcribed in full.

[← Souvannaphouma portrait poster, party adviser (Lao poster distributed in Vientiane)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/souvannaphouma-portrait-poster-lao-vientiane-1958/) [Chitra Katha photo poster No. 32: Baghdad Pact Organization, aid to peace (Bengali photo poster distributed in Dacca) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/chitra-katha-32-baghdad-pact-ankara-peace-bengali-dacca-1958/)

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