--- title: 'Manila Host to SEATO poster No. 6: 1954 and 1958 (English, Manila)' url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/manila-host-to-seato-poster-6-1954-1958-manila-1958/ description: 'Large ''1954'' and ''1958'' numerals frame the headline ''MANILA - HOST TO SEATO'' over captioned photographs: the Philippine Legislative Building with flags' section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. Manila Host to SEATO poster No. 6: 1954 and 1958 (English, Manila) [![Manila Host to SEATO poster No. 6: 1954 and 1958, 1958 US poster: Large '1954' and '1958' numerals frame the headline 'MANILA](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/manila-host-to-seato-poster-6-1954-1958-manila-1958.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/manila-host-to-seato-poster-6-1954-1958-manila-1958.jpg) # Manila Host to SEATO poster No. 6: 1954 and 1958 (English, Manila) Large '1954' and '1958' numerals frame the headline 'MANILA - HOST TO SEATO' over captioned photographs: the Philippine Legislative Building with flags of eight nations, Carlos P. Garcia signing the Manila Pact, Ramon Magsaysay with John Foster Dulles, delegates at the Rizal Monument, SEATO meetings and Philippine troops boarding a ship. The tell is card-stacking: treaty ceremony, cultural round tables and military exercise are shown together, with 'free world' used for member nations. ## Propaganda techniques used in this poster [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) ## Text on the object Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` 1954 IN 1954, Manila was the birthplace of the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty, otherwise known as The Manila Pact. This year, Manila again hosts SEATO as the Military Advisers convene their Eighth Meeting and the Foreign Ministers of the 8 member nations meet for the all-important 4th session. Flags of eight member nations wave in front of the Philippine Legislative Building where conference sessions were held at opening ceremonies of the Manila Pact meeting. Surrounded by members of the Philippine panel, President Carlos P. Garcia (then Vice-President and Secretary of Foreign Affairs) affixes his signature to the historic Manila Pact documents on Sept. 8, 1954. The Treaty came into force Feb. 19, 1955. President Ramon Magsaysay with U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles at the 1954 SEATO meeting. In addition to signing the Manila Pact, the eight member nations drew up a declaration known as the Pacific Charter, inspired by the Philippines. MANILA - HOST TO SEATO 1958 Dr. Bernabe Africa (left) participates in SEATO sponsored round table on "Traditional Cultures and Technological Progress in Southeast Asia" in Bangkok. Chief delegates from eight free world countries assemble in Manila in 1954 to formulate a collective security arrangement for Southeast Asia. Philippine troops prepare to board the U.S.S. Salisbury Sound for transport to Bangkok, staging area of "Operation Firm Link" military exercise. Dr. Rafaelita H. Soriano presides over 5th session of SEATO Committee on Information, Cultural, Educational and Labor Activities in 1957 at Bangkok. The chief representatives to the Manila Conference of 1954 leave the Rizal Monument after paying tribute to the great Filipino national hero. SUPPLEMENT TO Free World VOLUME VII Nº4 APRIL 1958 ``` Name plates inside photographs (Dr. B. AFRICA, Sir GEORGE ALLEN, Phya ANUMAN RAJADHON) are read as best visible; supplement line digits are small and uncertain. [← The Doc says he can't pull this one!](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/berryman-the-doc-says-he-cant-pull-this-one-1958/) [Chitra Katha photo poster No. 34: Worldwide campaign to destroy mosquitoes (Bengali photo poster distributed in Dacca) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/chitra-katha-34-worldwide-mosquito-campaign-bengali-dacca-1958/) ## More propaganda examples that use the same techniques - [Fragments of the Abydos king list from Ramesses II's temple, in the British Museum: rows of royal cartouches](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/abydos-king-list-ramesses-ii-temple-british-museum/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer) - [Behistun (Bisotun) rock relief and trilingual inscription of Darius I: the king, two attendants and the bound rebel leaders beneath the winged figure of Ahuramazda](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/behistun-relief-darius-and-rebels-521bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Name-calling, Testimonial). Content note: Shows bound captives before the king, and the inscription records the mutilation and public execution of rebel leaders, as the king's own account. - [Tomb of Darius I at Naqsh-e Rustam: the king in relief beside his inscription DNa, c. 490 BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dna-inscription-darius-i-naqsh-e-rustam-490bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Testimonial, Card stacking) - [Line drawing of the Great Kadesh battle relief on the walls of the Ramesseum, from Breasted's History of Egypt](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kadesh-relief-ramesseum-breasted-drawing-1275bce/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer). Content note: A drawing of an Egyptian royal battle relief showing Hittite soldiers and horses killed and drowned, as the king's monument presented the battle; it is a one-sided image made by the winning side's own account. - [Persepolis, Apadana staircase relief: a figure with an animal from a procession of delegations, early fifth century BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/persepolis-apadana-delegate-relief-500bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Manufactured consensus) - [Alabaster relief, Assyrian troops storming a citadel, from Nineveh (reign of Sennacherib)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/relief-sennacherib-storming-citadel-nineveh-704bce/) (Neo Assyrian Empire · 0000 · Card stacking). Content note: An Assyrian palace relief of troops storming a fortified city, with a file of figures below; Assyrian royal reliefs and texts record killing, mutilation and deportation, shown as carved, with the historical context and scholarly dispute on the regime page. - [Colour lithograph of the Latin text of the Res Gestae Divi Augusti on the wall of the temple of Roma and Augustus at Ancyra, with the heading in large letters (Perrot, Guillaume and Delbet, 1872)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/lithograph-res-gestae-ancyra-heading-0014/) (Roman Empire · 0014 · Card stacking, Glittering generalities) - [Silver denarius of Vespasian, reverse IVDAEA with a trophy of arms and a seated mourning woman](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/denarius-vespasian-judaea-capta-0070/) (Roman Empire · 0070 · Card stacking). Content note: A Roman victory coin showing a mourning female figure as the personification of the conquered province of Judaea after the Roman suppression of the Jewish revolt; shown as struck, with the historical context on the regime page.