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title: Pictures in the News poster, No. 7 (Arabic poster distributed in Beirut)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/pictures-in-the-news-7-arabic-beirut-1965/
description: The Arabic edition of Pictures in the News No. 7, headed with the fourteen African Kennedy commemorative stamps.
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# Pictures in the News poster, No. 7 (Arabic poster distributed in Beirut)

The Arabic edition of Pictures in the News No. 7, headed with the fourteen African Kennedy commemorative stamps, with the lead photographs of Constance Baker Motley as Manhattan Borough President and a beauty queen chosen for Negro History Week, and six smaller news photographs below. The tell is transfer and testimonial: the stamps and the welcomes shown by U.S. officials are offered as African and American endorsement of the U.S.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Testimonial](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/testimonial/)

## Text on the object

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

```
طوابع بريد افريقية تكرم ذكرى الرئيس جون ف. كنيدي

[Stamp country labels:] جمهورية الجابون؛ جمهورية النيجر؛ نيجيريا؛ ليبيريا؛ جمهورية غينيا؛ جمهورية فولتا العليا؛ جمهورية ساحل العاج؛ جمهورية تشاد؛ جمهورية افريقيا الوسطى؛ جمهورية الكاميرون الاتحادية؛ سيراليون؛ جمهورية مالي؛ جمهورية السنغال؛ جمهورية موريتانيا الاسلامية

الأنباء في صور

سيدة زنجية تشغل منصبا مرموقا في نيويورك

عينت مؤخرا السيدة كونستانس بيكر موتلي رئيسة لمقاطعة منهاتن، وهي السيدة الأولى التي تشغل هذا المنصب العام، وتتقاضى أعلى مرتب [illegible] موظفة عامة في الولايات المتحدة. وكانت السيدة موتلي أيضا أول سيدة زنجية تنتخب عضوا للشيوخ عن ولاية نيويورك. ومنهاتن هي واحدة من مقاطعات نيويورك الخمس وبلغ عدد سكانها 1.7 مليون نسمة.

كان انتخابها ملكة جمال، مفاجأة لها عبرت عنها بظرف جميل

التقطت هذه الصورة في اللحظة التي اعلن فيها فوز هذه الفتاة الجميلة في مسابقة للجمال. انها روث ويستون (الثالثة من اليمين) وقد تم اختيارها «ملكة» في برنامج «اسبوع تاريخ الزنوج» الذي اقيم مؤخرا في مدينة نيويورك، واشترك فيه زوار افريقيون وامريكيون. وستزور روث ويستون افريقيا هذا الصيف.

[Six smaller photo captions, small Arabic text: Senator Robert F. Kennedy and Mrs. Kennedy welcoming Octavia John; Lew Alcindor; the kidney-transplant mother and son; President Johnson and children in Alexandria, Virginia; the UN Economic Commission for Africa meeting in Nairobi; delegates to the World Youth Forum at the Lincoln Memorial. Wording illegible at this resolution]

65-P-135 (16)
```

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

```
African postage stamps commemorating President John F. Kennedy

[Stamp country labels: Republic of Gabon; Republic of Niger; Nigeria; Liberia; Republic of Guinea; Republic of Upper Volta; Republic of Ivory Coast; Republic of Chad; Central African Republic; Federal Republic of Cameroun; Sierra Leone; Republic of Mali; Republic of Senegal; Islamic Republic of Mauritania]

News in Pictures

A Negro woman holds a prominent post in New York

Mrs. Constance Baker Motley was recently appointed president of the borough of Manhattan; she is the first woman to hold this public office and draws the highest salary of [illegible] women public employees in the United States. Mrs. Motley was also the first Negro woman elected to the State Senate of New York. Manhattan is one of the five boroughs of New York and has 1.7 million inhabitants.

Her selection as beauty queen was a surprise to her, which she expressed charmingly

This picture was taken at the moment the victory of this beautiful girl in a beauty contest was announced. She is Ruth Weston (third from right), chosen "queen" in the "Negro History Week" program held recently in New York City, in which African and American visitors took part. Ruth Weston will visit Africa this summer.

[Captions for the six small photographs: illegible at this resolution.]

65-P-135 (16)
```

Arabic headlines and the two lead captions were read from the image; the six small photo captions could not be read at this resolution and are described in brackets. The translation follows what could be read.

[← Voyage to Mars poster, Spanish edition (Spanish-language poster distributed in San Jose)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/voyage-to-mars-poster-spanish-san-jose-1965/) [Pictures in the News poster, No. 7 (English poster distributed in Beirut) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/pictures-in-the-news-7-english-beirut-1965/)

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