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title: 'Chitra Katha photo poster No. 21: American Field Service students (Bengali, Dacca)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/chitra-katha-photo-poster-21-bengali-dacca-1957/
description: A Bengali-language photo page for USIS Dacca on American Field Service student exchange visits to East Pakistan.
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[![Chitra Katha photo poster No. 21: American Field Service students, 1957 US poster: A Bengali-language photo page for USIS](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/chitra-katha-photo-poster-21-bengali-dacca-1957.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/chitra-katha-photo-poster-21-bengali-dacca-1957.jpg)

# Chitra Katha photo poster No. 21: American Field Service students (Bengali, Dacca)

A Bengali-language photo page for USIS Dacca on American Field Service student exchange visits to East Pakistan. Photographs show U.S. students meeting a mill manager, the East Pakistan governor, local families and a radio station, and drinking coconut water. The text calls the students messengers of peace working toward world peace and goodwill. The tell is glittering-generalities: 'world peace' and 'international goodwill' are attached to a student-exchange tour.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

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

## Text on the object

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

```
চিত্র কথা

বিশ্বে সমঝোতা প্রতিষ্ঠাকল্পে ছাত্র ছাত্রীদের কার্যক্রম

[Bengali body text and photo captions not transcribed in full]

Issue No. 21 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 (Pictorial Story)

Students' programme for establishing understanding in the world

[Bengali body text and photo captions on the page not transcribed in full: American Field Service, a private educational body, arranged a visit to East Pakistan by four American students, who lodged with Pakistani families in Chittagong and Dhaka; the text calls such students messengers of peace and goodwill.]

Issue No. 21 Published weekly for U. S. I. S. Dacca by Jatiya Mudran.
Editor's Note :-Please Post in Public Place, such as School Room Buletin Board Etc.
```

Only the masthead, headline and printed imprint lines are transcribed; the small Bengali photo captions and body columns are not transcribed in full.

[← A Fellow Just Isn't Safe ANYWHERE Anymore!](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/berryman-fellow-isnt-safe-anywhere-1957/) [Chitra Katha photo poster No. 22: Pakistani naval chief at Charleston (Bengali, Dacca) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/chitra-katha-photo-poster-22-bengali-dacca-1957/)

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