News in Pictures poster, No. 5 (Arabic, Beirut)
An Arabic fold-out photo sheet with six captioned news photographs: U.S. grain flown to famine areas of Somalia, a Nigerian Ibo dictionary project, American students singing with Nigerian children, a White House party for orphans, African ambassadors at the UN and students rebuilding a burned church in Mississippi. The tell is card-stacking: aid and goodwill stories are selected, with the White House and Operation Crossroads Africa attached as markers of American good intent.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- March 12, 1965
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- U.S. Information Agency, Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East series (RSC Beirut)
- 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
- Economy and finance, Race and ethnicity
- 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, March 12, 1965. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6949199, 306-PPB-275).
Text on the object
الأنباء في صور شحنات من الحبوب الى الصومال [body caption in small print not transcribed; see translation] قاموس جديد لطلاب نيجيريا [body caption in small print not transcribed; see translation] الموسيقى وسيلة للتفاهم بين الشعوب [body caption in small print not transcribed; see translation] حفلة للأيتام الصغار في البيت الأبيض [body caption in small print not transcribed; see translation] ٣٥ دولة افريقية في الأمم المتحدة [body caption in small print not transcribed; see translation] طلاب الكليات يتطوعون لإعادة بناء كنيسة [body caption in small print not transcribed; see translation] 65-P-96 (16)
NEWS IN PICTURES Grain shipments to Somalia [Body: an American grain shipment flown to Mogadishu for people in drought-stricken areas, about 100 tons by air and 6,900 tons by sea, to be distributed to some 700,000 Somali citizens.] A new dictionary for Nigerian students [Body: Professor Robert Armstrong at Ibadan University is preparing an Ibo-English dictionary; student Felicia Ekejuiba uses a palatograph.] Music as a means of understanding between peoples [Body: Nigerian children and American students of Operation Crossroads Africa sing each other's folk songs.] A party for little orphans at the White House [Body: President Johnson and his family held a party for 150 orphans; the President's daughters played games with the children.] 35 African states in the United Nations [Body: three African ambassadors, Marof (Guinea), El-Kony (United Arab Republic) and Adebo (Nigeria), confer before a General Assembly session; Africa has more U.N. members than any other region.] College students volunteer to rebuild a church [Body: students and teachers of American colleges rebuilt a Baptist church in Mississippi burned after a civil rights rally; Reverend Roy McDonald held the first service on Christmas Day.]
Arabic edition. The headlines are transcribed from the image; the small-print body captions are not transcribed word for word and are summarised in the translation field from the sheet's content, which matches the English edition of the same issue.
