Malaya Today, Picture Set D, no. 7: Soldiers dancing and singing in their canteen (Malay Jawi-script photo poster distributed in Malaya)
A crowded photograph of smiling soldiers in an indoor room, seated and standing in a ring around a man dancing in the centre, some clapping. The Jawi-script Malay caption says the soldiers dance and sing in their canteen. The tell is plain-folks: army life is shown as cheerful, informal comradeship among ordinary men.
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 (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 5730019, 306-PPA-118).
Text on the object
تانه ملايو هاري اين كمفولن كمبر "دي" ڤاسوقكن٢ برسنجات ڤرسكتوان عسكر ايت مناري دان مڽاڽي دالم كنتين مريك [7]
Malaya Today Picture Set "D" Armed forces of the Federation The soldiers dance and sing in their canteen. [7]
Jawi script, read from the image; header reads 'Malaya Today, Picture Set "D", Armed forces of the Federation'. The verb read here as 'sing' (mnyanyi) is the least certain word; the English follows the sense of the sentence.
