Lao Military poster 145, flag and soldiers (Lao poster distributed in Vientiane)
A colour Lao-language drawing of three men in a shirtless, a helmeted and a hatted figure, working-class dress, together holding a red flag with the three-headed white elephant over a large blue-and-yellow mass. Lao text beneath speaks of soldiers in war and in peacetime and asks for everyone's cooperation. The tell is transfer: the national flag is joined to the soldiers' image, and plain-folks: the men are shown as ordinary workers and soldiers together.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- March 28, 1957
- 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
- Eisenhower Administration
- Leader
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Theme
- War and the military
- Event
- Cold War
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), Record Group 306, Propaganda Posters (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, March 28, 1957. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6949034, 306-PPB-145).
Text on the object
ຍາມເສິກ ທະຫານຮົບ ຍາມສຸຂທະຫານຊ່ວຍ ຣາສດອນ ໃນການສົ່ງເສີມການຢູ່ດີກິນດີ ທະຫານ ຈ໋ຄວາມຮ່ວມມືຈາກທ່ານທຸກຄົນ.
In time of war the soldier fights; in time of peace the soldier helps [the people] ... in promoting well-being; the soldiers [ask for] the cooperation of every one of you.
Several words in the middle line are uncertain; translation is approximate.
