--- title: The Government Cares for the People url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/government-cares-for-the-people-1965-1969/ description: A horizontal photo-sheet (code SP-1124) headed 'The Government Cares for the People' shows officials in Binh Long province handing gifts, blankets. section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. The Government Cares for the People [![The Government Cares for the People, 1965 US poster: A horizontal photo-sheet (code SP-1124) headed 'The Government Cares](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/government-cares-for-the-people-1965-1969.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/government-cares-for-the-people-1965-1969.jpg) # The Government Cares for the People A horizontal photo-sheet (code SP-1124) headed 'The Government Cares for the People' shows officials in Binh Long province handing gifts, blankets, cooking oil and cash to families who fled Viet Cong areas and resettled in a hamlet. The captions state that each family also received 3,500 piastres to build a house and 45 'can' of rice. The bottom panel answers doubters: 'Not empty talk, but deeds have proved the promises' made 'for the people, of the people'. ## Propaganda techniques used in this poster [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) ## Text on the object Original (Vietnamese) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` CHÍNH PHỦ SĂN SÓC ĐỒNG BÀO TRUNG TÁ TỈNH TRƯỞNG BÌNH LONG ĐANG NGỎ LỜI CÙNG ĐỒNG BÀO THUỘC ẤP TÂN SINH HƯNG CHIẾN, QUẬN AN-LỘC VỀ NHỮNG CHƯƠNG TRÌNH MƯU HẠNH PHÚC CHO DÂN DO CHÍNH QUYỀN CHỦ TRƯƠNG NHÂN DỊP NHỮNG GIA-ĐÌNH TỴ NẠN VỀ ĐỊNH CƯ TẠI ẤP. HAI NỮ CÔNG CHỨC TẠI BÌNH LONG ĐANG CHUYỂN GIAO TẶNG PHẨM DÀNH CHO MỘT GIA-ĐÌNH ĐỒNG BÀO TỴ NẠN CỘNG SẢN. TẶNG PHẨM GỒM CÓ TIỀN MẶT, THỰC PHẨM CÙNG NHỮNG ĐỒ THIẾT DỤNG CHO ĐỜI SỐNG HẰNG NGÀY. TRUNG TÁ TỈNH TRƯỞNG BÌNH LONG ĐANG ÂN CẦN TRAO TẶNG TẬN TAY MỘT THIẾU PHỤ NHỮNG TẶNG PHẨM DÀNH CHO MỘT GIA-ĐÌNH ĐỒNG BÀO TỴ NẠN CỘNG SẢN. NGOÀI CÁC TẶNG PHẨM, MỖI GIA-ĐÌNH CÒN NHẬN ĐƯỢC MỘT SỐ TIỀN MẶT LÀ 3.500 $ CỦA CHÍNH QUYỀN TỈNH ĐỂ XÂY CẤT NHÀ MỚI. MỘT THIẾU PHỤ SAU KHI TIẾP NHẬN TẶNG PHẨM GỒM CÓ MỀN, DẦU ĂN CÙNG MỘT VÀI PHẨM VẬT KHÁC, ĐANG HOAN HỈ TRỞ VỀ NHÀ. MỖI GIA ĐÌNH TRONG ẤP TÂN SINH HƯNG CHIẾN CÒN NHẬN ĐƯỢC 45 CÂN GẠO DO CHÍNH QUYỀN TRAO TẶNG. KHÔNG PHẢI NÓI SUÔNG, MÀ CÔNG VIỆC LÀM ĐÃ CHỨNG MINH NHỮNG LỜI HỨA VÌ DÂN, CHO DÂN VÀ CỦA DÂN ĐANG ĐƯỢC TUẦN TỰ THI HÀNH TRONG KHUÔN KHỔ XÂY DỰNG ĐỜI SỐNG MỚI CHO NÔNG THÔN. MỐI QUAN TÂM CỦA CHÍNH QUYỀN LÀ LÀM SAO CHO ĐỒNG BÀO ĐƯỢC SỐNG TRONG THANH BÌNH TỰ DO VÀ HẠNH PHÚC. SP-1124 ``` English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader) ``` THE GOVERNMENT CARES FOR THE COMPATRIOTS The Lieutenant Colonel Province Chief of Binh Long speaks with the compatriots of Tan Sinh Hung Chien hamlet, An-Loc district, about the programmes for the people's happiness set by the authorities, on the occasion of refugee families coming to settle in the hamlet. Two women civil servants in Binh Long hand over gifts for a family of compatriots who are refugees from communism. The gifts include cash, food and articles for daily life. The Lieutenant Colonel Province Chief of Binh Long kindly presents with his own hands to a young wife the gifts meant for a family of compatriots who are refugees from communism. Besides the gifts, each family also received a sum of cash, 3,500 $, from the provincial authorities to build a new house. A young wife, after receiving gifts including a blanket, cooking oil and some other items, returns home happily. Each family in Tan Sinh Hung Chien hamlet also received 45 'can' of rice given by the authorities. Not empty talk, but deeds have proved the promises [vì dân, cho dân và của dân: for the people, for the people and of the people] being carried out in turn within the framework of building a new life for the countryside. The authorities' concern is how to let the compatriots live in peaceful freedom and happiness. SP-1124 ``` [← Some Pictures of the Good Friends of the Poor School Boys in Soctrang](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/good-friends-of-the-poor-school-boys-soctrang-1965-1969/) [The Government is Helping People, Victims of the Communist Attack →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/government-helping-victims-communist-attack-1965-1969/) ## More propaganda examples that use the same techniques - [Fragments of the Abydos king list from Ramesses II's temple, in the British Museum: rows of royal cartouches](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/abydos-king-list-ramesses-ii-temple-british-museum/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer) - [Behistun (Bisotun) rock relief and trilingual inscription of Darius I: the king, two attendants and the bound rebel leaders beneath the winged figure of Ahuramazda](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/behistun-relief-darius-and-rebels-521bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Name-calling, Testimonial). Content note: Shows bound captives before the king, and the inscription records the mutilation and public execution of rebel leaders, as the king's own account. - [Tomb of Darius I at Naqsh-e Rustam: the king in relief beside his inscription DNa, c. 490 BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dna-inscription-darius-i-naqsh-e-rustam-490bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Testimonial, Card stacking) - [Line drawing of the Great Kadesh battle relief on the walls of the Ramesseum, from Breasted's History of Egypt](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kadesh-relief-ramesseum-breasted-drawing-1275bce/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer). Content note: A drawing of an Egyptian royal battle relief showing Hittite soldiers and horses killed and drowned, as the king's monument presented the battle; it is a one-sided image made by the winning side's own account. - [Persepolis, Apadana staircase relief: a figure with an animal from a procession of delegations, early fifth century BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/persepolis-apadana-delegate-relief-500bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Manufactured consensus) - [Alabaster relief, Assyrian troops storming a citadel, from Nineveh (reign of Sennacherib)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/relief-sennacherib-storming-citadel-nineveh-704bce/) (Neo Assyrian Empire · 0000 · Card stacking). Content note: An Assyrian palace relief of troops storming a fortified city, with a file of figures below; Assyrian royal reliefs and texts record killing, mutilation and deportation, shown as carved, with the historical context and scholarly dispute on the regime page. - [Colour lithograph of the Latin text of the Res Gestae Divi Augusti on the wall of the temple of Roma and Augustus at Ancyra, with the heading in large letters (Perrot, Guillaume and Delbet, 1872)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/lithograph-res-gestae-ancyra-heading-0014/) (Roman Empire · 0014 · Card stacking, Glittering generalities) - [Silver denarius of Vespasian, reverse IVDAEA with a trophy of arms and a seated mourning woman](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/denarius-vespasian-judaea-capta-0070/) (Roman Empire · 0070 · Card stacking). 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