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title: 'Evolution in South Vietnam: To Build While We Fight'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/evolution-in-south-vietnam-to-build-while-we-fight-panel-8-1966/
description: 'A blue-toned English-language panel quotes the Government of South Vietnam''s Declaration of Honolulu of 9 February 1966: ''... we pledge again.'
section: Collection
---

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# Evolution in South Vietnam: To Build While We Fight

A blue-toned English-language panel quotes the Government of South Vietnam's Declaration of Honolulu of 9 February 1966: '... we pledge again: to win the war of Independence; to build while we fight; to construct our nation when terror ceases.' Above the quotation soldiers in helmets and rifles plough a flooded rice field behind water buffalo beside farmers; below it soldiers stand and sit around a seated man in a forest clearing. The tell is soldiers shown doing farm work beside a pledge to 'build while we fight.'

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

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

```
"... we pledge again: to win the war of Independence;
to build while we fight; to construct our nation when terror ceases."

Government of South Vietnam
Declaration of Honolulu
Feb 9, 1966

8
```

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