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title: English, a World Language poster (English poster distributed in Manila)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/english-a-world-language-philippines-1964/
description: 'A sheet promoting English: a scatter of magazines and booklets under the title, a world-map emblem, a list of claims (favored publication language.'
section: Collection
---

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[![English, a World Language poster, 1964 US poster: A sheet promoting English](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/english-a-world-language-philippines-1964.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/english-a-world-language-philippines-1964.jpg)

# English, a World Language poster (English poster distributed in Manila)

A sheet promoting English: a scatter of magazines and booklets under the title, a world-map emblem, a list of claims (favored publication language, native language of 270 million, favored second language, language of aviation) and photographs of a village class, a UN chamber, audio-visual teaching and a Peace Corps volunteer. The tell is bandwagon, using the language's wide use as the reason to learn it, with card-stacking in the selected statistics.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Bandwagon](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/bandwagon/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/)

## Text on the object

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

```
ENGLISH
--A WORLD
LANGUAGE

English is:

 the favored publication language of the world
 the official native language of 270 million people
 the world's most favored "second language"
 the common language of aviation

English class with the "Thomasites"
International conference tongue
Audio-visual instruction
Peace Corps teaching aide

[photo text:] ROW 8 CHANNEL C ENGLISH COURSE; ENGLISH AS A KEY; [magazine and book covers including Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary, Sports Illustrated, The Economist, America in Space, Antarctic Frontier, Telstar; other cover text illegible]

SUPPLEMENT TO FREE WORLD
VOL. XIII NO. 5   MAY 1964
```

Cover text in the magazine photograph is only partly legible.

[← Shah-Johnson Souvenir poster (Persian, distributed in Tehran)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/shah-johnson-souvenir-poster-persian-tehran-1964/) [Ready Power for Peace, 7th Fleet poster (English poster distributed in Manila) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ready-power-for-peace-7th-fleet-pacific-1964/)

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