--- title: This Is the Netherlands East Indies, One of the United Nations url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/netherlands-this-is-the-netherlands-east-indies-one-of-the-united-nations-1939/ description: A sheet headed 'this is the NETHERLANDS EAST INDIES' with photographs of a Buddhist statue, rubber tapping, a school and temples. section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. This Is the Netherlands East Indies, One of the United Nations [![This Is the Netherlands East Indies, One of the United Nations, 1939 Netherlands poster: A sheet headed 'this](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/netherlands-this-is-the-netherlands-east-indies-one-of-the-united-nations-1939.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/netherlands-this-is-the-netherlands-east-indies-one-of-the-united-nations-1939.jpg) # This Is the Netherlands East Indies, One of the United Nations A sheet headed 'this is the NETHERLANDS EAST INDIES' with photographs of a Buddhist statue, rubber tapping, a school and temples, a statistics panel of population and products, and an essay stating 'Indonesia is an integral part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, not a "colony"'. The tell for euphemism is that sentence, which replaces the term 'colony' with a constitutional description; card-stacking is the selection of cultural scenes and products with no mention of opposition to Dutch rule. ## Propaganda techniques used in this poster [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Euphemism / doublespeak](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/euphemism/) ## Text on the object Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` this is the NETHERLANDS EAST INDIES It is the largest archipelago in the world, situated between Asia and Australia and the Pacific and Indian Oceans. [...] The Indonesians excel in textile weaving and metal working. Indonesia is an integral part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, not a "colony." The Governor-General administers the territory in the name of the Queen. He is assisted by an advisory "Council of the Indies," and a Cabinet. The Parliament is called "Volksraad" ("Peoples' Council"); in this legislative assembly the non-Dutch members have a majority. THE BUILDING OF THE PEOPLE'S COUNCIL, FORMERLY AN ADVISORY COUNCIL, WHICH BECAME A CO-LEGISLATIVE BODY IN THE LAST TWO DECADES. the people JAVANESE GIRL AND BUDDHIST STATUE TAPPING A RUBBER TREE BALINESE MAN AND WIFE HYGIENE CENTER, JAVA GIRLS' SCHOOL JAVA WOMEN OF MINANGKABAU, SUMATRA THE COUNCIL OF THE INDIES the country SUMATRA LANDSCAPE RAILROAD STATION, BATAVIA TIN DREDGER VILLAGE SCENE, INDONESIAN RESTAURANT BORO BUDUR, ONE OF THE WORLD'S LARGEST BUDDHIST MONUMENTS, JAVA RICE FIELDS, BALI their work POPULATION: The total population is about 70,000,000. [statistics and special features not reproduced] f. c. veit and s. m. adler Lithographed in the United States of America ONE OF THE UNITED NATIONS Issued by Netherlands Information Bureau An Agency of the Netherlands Government ``` [← The Dutch Fight on to Victory](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/netherlands-the-dutch-fight-on-to-victory-1939/) [This Is the Netherlands, One of the United Nations →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/netherlands-this-is-the-netherlands-one-of-the-united-nations-1939/) ## 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.