Malaya Today, Picture Set D, no. 9: Armoured cars pass the saluting base at the Coronation parade (Chinese photo poster distributed in Malaya)
A photograph of an armoured car and following vehicles driving past a draped stand of spectators and officers in white uniform, beside a street arch topped with a crown and carrying the words 'LONG LIVE THE QUEEN'. The Chinese caption says the Federation armoured-car unit drove past the saluting base at the Kuala Lumpur Coronation celebrations. The tell is transfer: the forces are shown inside the crown, flags and ceremony of the Coronation.
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
- Reassure
- 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 5730031, 306-PPA-130).
Text on the object
今日之馬來亞 畫片'D'套 聯合邦武裝部隊 聯合邦裝甲車部隊於吉隆坡 舉行加冕慶典時,駛越閱兵台前攝. [9]
Today's Malaya Picture Set 'D' Federation Armed Forces The Federation armoured-car unit, photographed driving past the saluting base when the Coronation celebrations were held in Kuala Lumpur. [9]
'LONG LIVE THE QUEEN' on the arch in the photograph is not part of the poster's printed text.
