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title: The New Government of the United States (Chinese poster distributed in Asia)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/new-government-of-the-us-chinese-1953/
description: Two photographs, a portrait of Dwight D. Eisenhower signing at a desk before a flag and the House of Representatives taking the oath.
section: Collection
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# The New Government of the United States (Chinese poster distributed in Asia)

Two photographs, a portrait of Dwight D. Eisenhower signing at a desk before a flag and the House of Representatives taking the oath, sit beside nine cabinet portraits, each with a small icon for his department. The text says voters chose a president, vice-president and Congress, and that Eisenhower then chose his cabinet. The tell is transfer: the authority of the ballot, the flag and the oath is attached to the new administration. The sheet describes it without criticism or comment.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

Original (Chinese) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
美國的新政府

國務卿杜勒斯
財政部長韓福瑞
國防部長威爾森
總檢察長勃朗納爾
郵務部長薩姆斐爾
內政部長馬凱
農業部長班森
商業部長威克斯
勞工部長寶欽

六千萬美國選民最近從幾位總統候選人中選舉出一位總統.他們更選舉出一位副總統,三十二名參議員和四百三十五名眾議員.艾森豪於當選總統後,便遴選他的內閣官員.這些閣員將負責主持為全體美國國民服務的機構.

新選出的眾議院舉行一九五三年第一屆會議.全體眾議員在議長馬丁監誓下舉行忠貞宣誓.
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
The New Government of the United States

Secretary of State Dulles
Secretary of the Treasury Humphrey
Secretary of Defense Wilson
Attorney General Brownell
Postmaster General Summerfield
Secretary of the Interior McKay
Secretary of Agriculture Benson
Secretary of Commerce Weeks
Secretary of Labor Durkin

Sixty million American voters recently elected one president from among several presidential candidates. They also elected one vice-president, thirty-two senators and four hundred and thirty-five representatives. After Eisenhower was elected president, he selected his cabinet officers. These cabinet members will be responsible for directing the agencies that serve all the American people.

The newly elected House of Representatives holds its first session of 1953. All the representatives take the oath of loyalty under the supervision of Speaker Martin.
```

Cabinet-name characters are transliterations and a few are hard to read in the scan; the original is as read.

[← Credo (English-language poster distributed in Asia)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/credo-committee-for-good-government-english-1953/) [The New Government of the United States (Japanese poster distributed in Asia) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/new-government-of-the-us-japanese-1953/)

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