Hội nghị Diên Hồng, by Lưu Hữu Phước (The Dien Hong Conference)
A colour sheet pairs a painted portrait of the 13th-century commander Tran Hung Dao, hand on sword, with a battle scene in which modern South Vietnamese soldiers and villagers march under the yellow-and-red flag. The slogans read 'Follow the example of Tran Hung Dao' and 'The whole people united against foreign invasion, destroy the Communists, save the nation'. Below is a verse text on the Dien Hong conference, in which the elders are asked 'peace or war?' and answer 'Fight!'. The sheet borrows a medieval resistance to Mongol invasion for a present-day war.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1965
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- Joint U.S. Public Affairs Office (JUSPAO) printing section, for the South Vietnamese government
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Johnson Administration
- Leader
- Lyndon B. Johnson
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Theme
- War and the military
- Event
- Vietnam War
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), RG 306, Psychological Warfare Posters, Vietnam War (NAID 561393), retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- NARA Unrestricted; hosted by owner decision
Joint U.S. Public Affairs Office (JUSPAO) printing section. National Archives and Records Administration, 306-VP-010-190.
Text on the object
NOI GƯƠNG TRẦN-HƯNG-ĐẠO TOÀN DÂN ĐOÀN KẾT CHỐNG NGOẠI XÂM , DIỆT CỘNG,CỨU NƯỚC HỘI NGHỊ DIÊN HỒNG LƯU HỮU PHƯỚC Toàn dân nghe chăng ? Sơn hà nguy biến ? Hận thù đằng đằng, biên thùy rung chuyển. Tuông giây non sông rền vang tiếng vó câu gây oán nghìn thu. Toàn dân ! Tiên-Long sơn hà nguy biến ! Hận thù đằng đằng, nên hòa hay chiến ? Diên-Hồng tâu lên cùng Minh - Để báo ân. Hỡi đầu tứ dân. Kìa vừng hồng trần lan trên đỉnh núi. Ôi Thăng-Long khói kinh kỳ phơi phối. Loa vang vang. Chiếu ban truyền bốn phương. Theo gió bay khắp miền sông núi réo đồi. Lòng dân Lạc - Hồng nhìn non nước ........ Yêu quê hương ...... Giống anh hùng nâng cao chí lớn. Giống anh hùng đua sức tráng cường. Ta lên đường lòng mong tàu đến long nhan. Giống Lạc - Hồng xin thề liều thân liều thân. Đường còn dài. Hồn vương trên quan tái. Xa xa trong áng mây đầu non Đoài. (Hm ..... Hm .....) (Hỏi): Trông quân Nguyên tàn phá non sông nhà. Đoạt thành trì toan xéo giày lăng miếu. Nhìn bao quân thoát lấn xâm tràn nước ta. Ôi sông núi nhà rền tiếng muôn dân kêu la. (Hỏi): Trước nhục nước nên hòa hay chiến. (Đáp): Quyết chiến ! Trước nhục nước nên hòa hay nên chiến. Quyết chiến ! Quyết chiến luôn. Cứu nước nhà. Nối chí dân hùng anh. (Hỏi): Thế nước yếu lấy gì lo chiến chinh. Hy sinh. (Hỏi): Thế nước yếu lấy gì lo chiến chinh. Hy sinh. Thề liều thân cho sông núi muôn năm lừng uy.
FOLLOW THE EXAMPLE OF TRAN HUNG DAO THE WHOLE PEOPLE UNITED AGAINST FOREIGN INVASION, DESTROY THE COMMUNISTS, SAVE THE NATION THE DIEN HONG CONFERENCE LUU HUU PHUOC Does the whole people hear? The homeland in dire peril? Hatred looms, the frontier shakes. [The hooves' sound rings through the land, causing a grievance for a thousand years; line uncertain.] All people! The land of Tien-Long [Fairy-Dragon] in dire peril! Hatred looms: peace or war? Dien-Hong reports up together with the [Enlightened Sovereign, as read] to repay [the debt of gratitude]. O heads of the four classes of the people. See the red sun spread over the mountain peak. Alas, the smoke of the capital Thang-Long drifts. The loudspeaker sounds and sounds. The decree is sent to the four directions. Carried by the wind across the rivers, mountains and hills. The hearts of the Lac-Hong people look on the land ........ Love of the homeland ...... The heroic race raises its great will. The heroic race vies in strength. We set out on the road, hoping the ship reaches the royal presence. The Lac-Hong race swears to risk its life, risk its life. The road is still long. The king's spirit is on the frontier. Far off in the clouds above the western mountains. (Hm ..... Hm .....) (Question): Look at the Yuan troops ravaging our rivers and mountains. Seizing citadels, about to trample the royal temples. See how many troops [pour] into our country. Alas, our rivers and mountains ring with the cry of the myriad people. (Question): Before the nation's shame, peace or war? (Answer): Fight to the end! Before the nation's shame, peace or war? Fight to the end! Fight on. Save the nation. Carry on the will of the heroic people. (Question): The nation is weak; with what can we wage war? Sacrifice. (Question): The nation is weak; with what can we wage war? Sacrifice. We swear to risk our lives that the rivers and mountains may stand mighty for ten thousand years.
