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title: The News in Pictures poster, No. 1 (Arabic, Beirut)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/news-in-pictures-no-1-arabic-beirut-1964/
description: 'A fold-out photo sheet of nine captioned news photographs about African and US relations in spring 1964: President Johnson with the King (1 of 3)'
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# The News in Pictures poster, No. 1 (Arabic, Beirut)

A fold-out photo sheet of nine captioned news photographs about African and US relations in spring 1964: President Johnson with the King of Burundi, Africa Day at the New York World's Fair, Johnson with foreign students, Sierra Leone and Guinea officials, a Malawi labor minister, Algerian legislators with Eisenhower. The sheet presents official meetings and pavilion openings as news. The tell is card-stacking: only cordial diplomatic and fair events appear, and the captions quote Johnson on every nation's freedom to seek its own destiny.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

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

## Text on the object

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

```
الأنباء في صور

[Eleven captioned photographs, each with a block of small Arabic caption text. Headlines of the captions are not separately set; caption text is not transcribed in full.]

65-P-3(8)
```

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

```
The News in Pictures

[Eleven captioned photographs with Arabic captions. From the legible captions: King Mwambutsa IV of Burundi received by President and Mrs. Johnson in the White House Rose Garden on 19 May; Africa Day at the New York World's Fair, with the African pavilion opened on 21 May; President Johnson meeting more than 800 foreign students at the White House, quoting him that every nation must be free to seek its destiny in its own way; Assistant Secretary of State G. Mennen Williams meeting journalism students in Dakar; the Chad ambassador presenting credentials; the Sierra Leone pavilion opening on 8 May; Guinea's Minister of Economic Cooperation welcomed by Under Secretary Harriman; Malawi's Minister of Labor at a luncheon given by Assistant Secretary of Labor Weaver; Algerian legislators meeting former President Eisenhower; Gabon officials at an industrial development study with Raeburn F. Hay of the Area Redevelopment Administration.]

65-P-3(8)
```

Arabic caption body text is not transcribed here; the headline and printed code are. The translation field summarises the captions, which match the English edition (see NAID 6949186).

[← Heraldo Grafico poster, August 1964 (Spanish poster distributed in San Salvador)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/heraldo-grafico-poster-413g-august-spanish-san-salvador-1964/) [The News in Pictures poster, No. 1 (English, Beirut) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/news-in-pictures-no-1-english-beirut-1964/)

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