Chitra Katha photo poster No. 38: Friendship of the Muslim states (Bengali photo poster distributed in Dacca)
A Bengali photo sheet on Pakistan's third Republic Day, 23 March, as marked at Karachi and Lahore with parades and a cultural programme. Photographs show Turkish, Iranian and Iraqi military delegations being received, a Turkish military band, sabre dancers, and honour guards. The captions present the three countries' attendance as shown friendship among Baghdad Pact members. The tell is bandwagon and card-stacking: allied delegations and ceremony stand for alliance strength.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- April 29, 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, Religion
- 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, April 29, 1958. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6948818, 306-PPB-34z).
Text on the object
চিত্র কথা মুসলিম রাষ্ট্র সমূহের সৌহার্দ্য Issue No. 38 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) Friendship of the Muslim states [English imprint lines as printed.]
Masthead, headline and imprint transcribed; the Bengali body captions beneath the photographs are not transcribed in full.
