--- title: International Cooperation for Health url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/international-cooperation-for-health-1965-1969/ description: A vertical photo-sheet (code SP-1301) headed 'International Cooperation' reports a U.S. Navy medical team treating villagers across Lam Dong province. section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. International Cooperation for Health [![International Cooperation for Health, 1965 US poster: A vertical photo-sheet (code SP-1301) headed 'International](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/international-cooperation-for-health-1965-1969.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/international-cooperation-for-health-1965-1969.jpg) # International Cooperation for Health A vertical photo-sheet (code SP-1301) headed 'International Cooperation' reports a U.S. Navy medical team treating villagers across Lam Dong province, with captions naming Smith, Keys and Dr. Jacobs and a Vietnamese doctor, Chuong, at the Bao Loc civil hospital. The body text presents the programme as 'selfless mutual aid of the Free World' and adds that 'meanwhile the Viet Cong do nothing to help and instead go in for sabotage'. Named, pictured helpers carry the aid claim and the closing sentence contrasts it with the opposing side. ## Propaganda techniques used in this poster [Testimonial](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/testimonial/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Scapegoating](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/scapegoating/) ## Text on the object Original (Vietnamese) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` HỢP-TÁC QUỐC-TẾ [Highlands-language text, not transcribed] Chương-Trình Hợp-Tác Y-Tế Quốc-Tế đang được thực hiện tại Tỉnh Lâm-Đồng. Một Phái Đoàn Y-Tế Hải-Quân Hoa-Kỳ vừa đến Lâm-Đồng để khám bệnh và cho thuốc cho đồng bào trong toàn tỉnh. Một chứng-cớ hùng hồn cho sự tương trợ bất vụ lợi của Thế-Giới Tự-Do trong lúc đó bọn Việt-Cộng chẳng giúp gì, lại ra công phá hoại. [Highlands-language text, not transcribed] Ông Smith và Ông Keys đang khám miệng cho một em bé tại dân-y-viện Bảo-Lộc. [Highlands-language text, not transcribed] Bác-sĩ Chương và bác-sĩ Jacobs đang thảo luận trong phòng khám bệnh. [Highlands-language text, not transcribed] Các nhân viên Việt-Mỹ đang làm giấy tờ cho đồng bào vào khám bệnh. [Highlands-language text, not transcribed] Bác-sĩ Jacobs đang chẩn bệnh cho một em bé tại bệnh viện Bảo-Lộc. [Highlands-language text, not transcribed] CHƯƠNG-TRÌNH HỢP-TÁC Y-TẾ ĐÃ MANG LẠI HẠNH-PHÚC CHO ĐỒNG BÀO TRONG TỈNH LÂM-ĐỒNG [Highlands-language text, not transcribed] [uniform tags in photographs:] JACOBS; U.S.N. SP-1301 ``` English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader) ``` INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION [Highlands-language text, not transcribed] The International Medical Cooperation Programme is being carried out in Lam-Dong Province. A U.S. Navy Medical Mission has just arrived in Lam-Dong to examine patients and give medicine to the compatriots throughout the province. An eloquent proof of the selfless mutual aid of the Free World, while the Viet-Cong do nothing to help and instead go to the trouble of sabotage. [Highlands-language text, not transcribed] Mr. Smith and Mr. Keys examining the mouth of a small child at the Bao-Loc civil hospital. [Highlands-language text, not transcribed] Doctor Chuong and Doctor Jacobs discussing in the examination room. [Highlands-language text, not transcribed] Vietnamese and American personnel preparing papers for the compatriots entering for examination. [Highlands-language text, not transcribed] Doctor Jacobs diagnosing a small child at Bao-Loc hospital. [Highlands-language text, not transcribed] THE MEDICAL COOPERATION PROGRAMME HAS BROUGHT HAPPINESS TO THE COMPATRIOTS IN LAM-DONG PROVINCE [Highlands-language text, not transcribed] [uniform tags in photographs:] JACOBS; U.S.N. SP-1301 ``` Parallel Highlands-language body text, captions, subtitle and footer (Latin script) are not transcribed or translated; the language is not named on the sheet. [← International Cooperation in the Fight Against Communism](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/international-cooperation-against-communism-1965-1969/) [Đoàn y tế Batư đến hoạt động tại Kiến Hòa (Iranian Medical Team Comes to Kien Hoa) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/iranian-medical-team-kien-hoa-1965-1969/) ## More propaganda examples that use the same techniques - [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). 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