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
- Date
- May 4, 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
- Media and information, Science and technology
- 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, May 4, 1964. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6949252, 306-PPB-327).
Text on the object
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.
