News Briefs in Pictures poster, 65-273 (Amharic poster distributed in Addis Ababa)
The Amharic-language edition of the four-item photo sheet on Ethiopia: a calendar booklet of Ethiopian scenes sold for welfare work, a Peace Corps volunteer ladling milk at a school, a new veterinary laboratory and a court interpreter receiving a Braille typewriter. The headlines say the Ethiopian Peace Corps is the largest in Africa. The tell is card-stacking: only favourable aid and goodwill items appear, with a quoted thank-you from the recipient.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- April 30, 1965
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- U.S. Information Agency (predecessor: State Department International Information and Educational Exchange Program), Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East series
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Johnson Administration
- Leader
- Lyndon B. Johnson
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- Health, Science and technology
- Event
- Cold War
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), Record Group 306, Posters in Asia, Latin America, Middle East, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work; NARA RG 306)
U.S. Information Agency / Department of State, April 30, 1965. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6949160, 306-PPB-236).
Text on the object
አጫጭር ሥዕላዊ ዜናዎች ። ስለኢትዮጵያ የተዘጋጀ መጽሐፍ በብዙ አገሮች ይነበባል ። በኢትዮጵያ የሰላም ጓድ ልዑካን፣ ቁጥር እየበዛ ሄደዋል ። ኢትዮጵያ በአፍሪቃ ከፍተኛውን የሰላም ጓድ ቁጥር ይዛለች ። አዲስ የከብት ሕክምናና የምርመራ ጣቢያ ተከፈተ ። የጠቅላይ ፍርድ ቤት ባልደረባ የብሬይል የጽሕፈት መኪና አገኙ ። 65-273 (8)
Short news in pictures. A book prepared about Ethiopia is read in many countries. The number of Peace Corps volunteers in Ethiopia is growing. Ethiopia holds the largest number of Peace Corps volunteers in Africa. A new livestock treatment and diagnostic station has been opened. A Supreme Court official obtained a Braille typewriter.
Only the masthead, the four headlines and the sheet code are transcribed; the four dense body captions are too small to transcribe verbatim at this resolution and are not included.
