Chitra Katha photo poster No. 32: Baghdad Pact Organization, aid to peace (Bengali photo poster distributed in Dacca)

A Bengali photo sheet on the Baghdad Pact ministerial council at Ankara in late January, 27 to 30 January per the captions. Photographs show the council hall, delegations from Pakistan, Iran, Iraq, Turkey and Britain, U.S. observers including Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, and Pakistan's army chief received by a Turkish guard. The tell is bandwagon and card-stacking: the headline names the pact a helper of peace and the images show only ceremony and agreement.

Propaganda techniques used in this poster

BandwagonCard stacking

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

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, February 27, 1958. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6948813, 306-PPB-34u).

চিত্র কথা

শান্তির সহায় বাগদাদ চুক্তি সংস্থা

Issue No. 32 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)

The Baghdad Pact Organization, helper of peace

[English imprint lines as printed.]