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title: New Lao Cabinet poster, Royal Government (Lao, Vientiane)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/new-lao-cabinet-poster-royal-government-lao-vientiane-1959/
description: 'A Lao-language poster of portraits: the king at top centre under a royal crown emblem, the prime minister at upper left.'
section: Collection
---

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# New Lao Cabinet poster, Royal Government (Lao, Vientiane)

A Lao-language poster of portraits: the king at top centre under a royal crown emblem, the prime minister at upper left, a deputy prime minister at upper right, and two rows of ministers and military officers below, each with a caption. The Lao three-headed elephant flag and the red-white-blue-yellow flag stand behind them. The headline reads as the government of His Majesty the King of Laos. The tell is transfer: the king's and the flags' authority is attached to the cabinet.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

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

## Text on the object

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

```
[imprint at upper left, small script:] ກົມຖະແຫຼງຂ່າວແລະໂຄສະນາການລາວ

ຣັຖບານຂອງສົມເດັດພຣະເຈົ້າມະຫາ ຊີວິດແຫ່ງພຣະຣາຊອານາຈັກລາວ

[caption under the king:] ພຣະບາດສົມເດັດພຣະເຈົ້າ ສີສະຫວ່າງວົງ, ພຣະເຈົ້າແຜ່ນດິນແຫ່ງພຣະຣາຊອານາຈັກລາວ.

[fourteen further portrait captions giving names, ministries and titles, partly illegible at this resolution and not transcribed individually]
```

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

```
[Imprint:] Lao Department of Information and Publicity [approximate]. The Government of His Majesty the King of the Royal Kingdom of Laos. [Under the king:] His Majesty King Sisavang Vong [Savang Vatthana], sovereign of the Royal Kingdom of Laos [name reading uncertain]. [Remaining captions give each man's name and ministry; not translated individually.]
```

Best-effort reading of Lao script. The king's name in the caption could not be read reliably. The fourteen minister and officer captions are too small and uncertain to transcribe.

[← Bataan Day poster, 9 April 1959 (English poster distributed in Manila)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/bataan-day-9-april-1959-manila-1959/) [The Westminster Singers (Arabic and English poster distributed in Beirut) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/the-westminster-singers-arabic-lebanon-1959/)

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