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
- Date
- February 27, 1958
- 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
- Home front, War and the military
- 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, February 27, 1958. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6948812, 306-PPB-34t).
Text on the object
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.
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.
