Philippine Veterans Legion 12th Convention, 1957 US poster: A poster announcing the 12th national convention

Philippine Veterans Legion 12th Convention (English poster distributed in Manila)

A poster announcing the 12th national convention of the Philippine Veterans Legion, Manila, May 9-12, 1957. A stylised helmeted figure with hand on chest stands beside the Legion seal, a factory skyline, a gear and the Rizal monument under the slogan 'national Discipline for PROGRESS'. The tell is transfer and glittering generalities: national symbols and the abstract word progress are attached to a veterans' organisation.

Propaganda techniques used in this poster

Glittering generalities Transfer

Date: May 1, 1957
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: Eisenhower Administration
Leader: Dwight D. Eisenhower
Audience: Foreign public
Purpose: Commemorate
Theme: War and the military
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, May 1, 1957. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6949114, 306-PPB-206).

Text on the object

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

PHILIPPINE VETERANS LEGION
EST PRO PATRIA MORI [seal text, partly illegible]

12th national convention
"national Discipline for PROGRESS"
RIZAL
MAY 9-12
MANILA
1957

Philippine Veterans Legion

Seal lettering is small and partly illegible; artist's signature at lower left of the drawing not transcribed.