Malaya Today, Picture Set D, no. 10: Uniforms of the Federation army (Malay Jawi-script photo poster distributed in Malaya)
A studio photograph of three soldiers standing in a row in three different uniforms: a khaki cap and shirt, white ceremonial dress, and a bush hat with webbing pouches and rifle. The Jawi-script Malay caption labels them as the Federation army's uniforms: left, one kind of dress; centre, ceremonial dress; right, war dress. The tell is card-stacking: a catalogue of smart uniforms presents the forces without their purposes or costs.
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
- Warn or inform
- 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 (NAID 1767935), 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 5730022, 306-PPA-121).
Text on the object
تانه ملايو هاري اين كمفولن كمبر "دي" ڤاسوقكن٢ برسنجات ڤرسكتوان يونيفورم عسكر ڤرسكتوان: (دكيري) ڤكاين وقت برجالن (دتڠه) ڤكاين استعادة (دكانن) ڤكاين ڤرڠ. [10]
Malaya Today Picture Set "D" Armed forces of the Federation Uniforms of the Federation army: (left) dress for when on the move [or walking-out dress]; (centre) ceremonial dress; (right) war dress. [10]
Jawi script, read from the image; header reads 'Malaya Today, Picture Set "D", Armed forces of the Federation'. The phrase read as 'dress for when walking' (pakaian waktu berjalan) is uncertain in sense; the sheet number appears in a circle at left of the caption.
