Malaya Today, Picture Set D, no. 1: Malay Regiment parade in Kuala Lumpur (Tamil photo poster distributed in Malaya)
A photograph of ranks of Malay Regiment soldiers in white tunics and dark sarong-style sashes marching with rifles on a field before a large domed government building with a clock tower. A Tamil caption names it a Malay Regiment parade in Kuala Lumpur. The tell is transfer: the monumental building and the ordered ranks lend the state's prestige and permanence to the armed forces.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- September 3, 1953
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- U.S. Information Agency (predecessor: State Department International Information and Educational Exchange Program), Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia 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
- Themes
- War and the military, Empire and colonialism
- Event
- Cold War
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), Record Group 306, Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work; NARA RG 306)
U.S. Information Agency / Department of State, September 3, 1953. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 5730003, 306-PPA-102).
Text on the object
இன்றைய மலாயா படத்தொகுதி ஈ பெடரேஷன் இராணுவப் படை கோலாலம்பூரிலுள்ள மலாய் பட்டாள அணிவகுப்பு. [1]
Today's Malaya Picture Set [D] Federation Army Malay Regiment parade in Kuala Lumpur. [1]
Header reads 'Today's Malaya, Picture Set [D], Federation Army'; the set letter is printed in Tamil script. Transcribed from the image by reading the printed Tamil.
