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title: Ap-Bac Citizens Enjoy New Water System
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/new-water-system-ap-bac-1966/
description: A horizontal photo-sheet (code SP-1009) pairs a new water tower and smiling children at a standpipe with a quotation from the Declaration of Honolulu about
section: Collection
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# Ap-Bac Citizens Enjoy New Water System

A horizontal photo-sheet (code SP-1009) pairs a new water tower and smiling children at a standpipe with a quotation from the Declaration of Honolulu about a self-sufficient economy. Captions say the water is filtered and distributed to the whole area and that the villagers hope for a school and a landing stage. Completed works and happy faces carry the claim, and the Honolulu quotation lends the government's stated aims to the project.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)

## Text on the object

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

```
HỆ THỐNG NƯỚC VỪA THÀNH LẬP
ĐÃ ĐEM LẠI LỢI ÍCH CHO
DÂN CHÚNG ẤP-BẮC

BẢN TUYÊN NGÔN HONOLULU,
MỤC TIÊU CỦA CHÍNH-PHỦ V.N.C.H.

... Chúng tôi phải tạo lập và duy trì
một nền kinh tế vững chắc và tự túc,
và xây dựng một đời sống vật chất
tốt đẹp hơn cho dân tộc chúng tôi ...

Bể nước mới dựng tại Ấp-Bắc. Tại đây, nước
được lọc sạch và phân phối đi cho cả vùng.

Các em chắc chắn sẽ được sạch sẽ, mạnh khỏe và tươi vui hơn nhờ nước.

Hợp tác với chính quyền dân chúng
hy vọng mở mang trường trại để con
em họ có nơi học tập.

Nhân dân Ấp-Bắc sinh sống nhờ con
kinh. Họ định lập một bến tại CẦU-
MỚI này để ghe thuyền có nơi ghé đậu

SP-1009

CHÍNH PHỦ V.N.C.H. NỖ LỰC CẢI-TIẾN ĐỜI SỐNG TOÀN THỂ DÂN CHÚNG
```

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

```
THE NEWLY ESTABLISHED WATER SYSTEM
HAS BROUGHT BENEFIT TO
THE PEOPLE OF AP-BAC

THE HONOLULU DECLARATION,
GOAL OF THE R.V.N. GOVERNMENT

... We must create and maintain
a strong and self-sufficient economy,
and build a better material life
for our people ...

The newly built water tank at Ap-Bac. Here, the water
is filtered clean and distributed to the whole area.

The children will surely be cleaner, healthier and happier thanks to the water.

Cooperating with the people's government,
they hope to expand the school buildings so their
children have a place to study.

The people of Ap-Bac live by the canal. They plan to build a landing at this NEW BRIDGE so that boats have a place to moor.

SP-1009

THE R.V.N. GOVERNMENT STRIVES TO IMPROVE THE LIFE OF ALL THE PEOPLE
```

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