Credo, Peace, Progress and Freedom poster (English poster distributed in Manila)
A blue sheet promoting the United Nations: the UN emblem, a Security Council chamber, and photographs of singing children, a forestry and a disease-control project in the Philippines, and peacekeepers. A quotation from Secretary General U Thant says the UN rests on public allegiance rather than military force. The tell is testimonial (the Secretary General's quoted words) plus glittering generalities ('peace, progress and freedom for all men').
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- October 12, 1964
- 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
- Johnson Administration
- Leader
- Lyndon B. Johnson
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- War and the military, Economy and finance
- Event
- Cold War
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), Record Group 306, Posters in Asia, Latin America, Middle East, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work; NARA RG 306)
U.S. Information Agency / Department of State, October 12, 1964. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6949249, 306-PPB-324).
Text on the object
Credo: PEACE, PROGRESS AND FREEDOM FOR ALL MEN "The United Nations does not depend for its strength upon military resources but upon the allegiance of millions of men and women who support the Organization--not in the forlorn belief that it is man's last hope for survival but in the creative conviction that it is our best hope for peace and progress." --Secretary General U THANT The United Nations unselfishly works to free the world's children from disease, ignorance and hunger. U.N. technical assistance to the Philippines includes forestry research and disease control. The peace-keeping machinery of the U.N. helps to develop friendly relations among nations. SUPPLEMENT TO FREE WORLD VOL. XIII NO. 10 OCTOBER 1964
