The Duty of the Royal Cambodian Army Is to Defend Your Family (Khmer-language poster distributed in Cambodia)
A Khmer-language poster. A large Red Cross nurse in a laurel-wreathed cap looks over a mother holding a child, while two armed soldiers walk away in front of red flames. The headline says the Royal Cambodian Army's duty is to defend your family. The tell is transfer, with the Red Cross emblem and the nurse's authority attached to the army, plus a mild fear-appeal in the flames the soldiers walk before.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- August 13, 1954
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- U.S. Information Agency (predecessor: State Department International Information and Educational Exchange Program), Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia series
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Eisenhower Administration
- Leader
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Reassure
- Themes
- War and the military, Home front
- Event
- Cold War
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), Record Group 306, Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work; NARA RG 306)
U.S. Information Agency / Department of State, c. 1954. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 5729939, 306-PPA-39).
Text on the object
កងទ័ពខេមរភូមិន្ទ មាន កាតព្វកិច្ច ត្រូវការពារ ដល់ គ្រួសារអ្នក ៗ [small Khmer line at lower right, [illegible] at this resolution]
The Khmer Royal Army has the duty to defend the families of you all. (Headline; reading of some letters is uncertain.) The small line at lower right is not translated.
Headline reading is a best effort from the printed Khmer script; the small foot line is too small to read reliably.
