Meeting to Discuss the Course of the Vietnam War, 1966 US poster: A landscape sheet with seven photographs and text in two

Meeting to Discuss the Course of the Vietnam War

A landscape sheet with seven photographs and text in two languages reports a rally in Pleiku on 13 February 1966 that welcomed the Honolulu summit and denounced 'neutrality' and 'sham peace' as plots. Photos show a crowd with banners, a march behind a South Vietnamese flag, a petition handed to the province chief, a speaker for refugees from communism, and cyclo and Lambretta drivers joining in. The tell is the crowd count and the inclusion of every group, which presents the demonstration as the voice of the whole town.

Propaganda techniques used in this poster

Date
1966
Period
Cold War
Made by
Joint U.S. Public Affairs Office (JUSPAO) printing section, Saigon, for the South Vietnamese government
Region
North America
Medium
Poster
Issuer type
State
Regime
Johnson Administration
Leader
Lyndon B. Johnson
Audience
Domestic public
Purpose
Persuade or win support
Themes
War and the military, Elections and party politics
Event
Vietnam War
Source
Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
Rights
NARA Unrestricted; hosted by owner decision
Joint U.S. Public Affairs Office (JUSPAO) printing section, Saigon, for the South Vietnamese government. National Archives and Records Administration, 306-VP-5-984.

Text on the object

Original (Vietnamese; Central Highlands language (probably Jarai)) · read from the image, not independently checked

ĐỒNG BÀO PLEIKU HOAN HÔ HỘI NGHỊ THƯỢNG ĐỈNH HONOLULU VÀ TỐ CÁO ÂM MƯU TRUNG LẬP VÀ HÒA BÌNH GIẢ TẠO

[Highlands-language line] ANĂ BON SANG PLEIKU HOAN HÔ TƠLƠI PƠJƠNUM PRŎNG PƠ HONOLULU LAIH ANUN TỐ-CÁO TƠLƠI KIĂNG KƠ TRUNG-LẬP LAIH ANUN TƠLƠI

Hàng trăm đồng bào họp mét-tinh ngày 13 tháng 2 năm 1966.
[Highlands-language] Hơmâo rơbeh kơ sa rơtuh ană bon sang pơjơnum biểu tình amăng hơri 13 blan 2 thŭn 1966.

Cuộc mét-tinh biến thành cuộc biểu tình tuần hành trong Thị Xã.
[Highlands-language] Tơlơi pơ jơnum prong hlong jing hě tơlơi rơbat hiu ur driao mang Plơi prŏng.

Ông Chủ Tịch Hội Đồng Tỉnh đại diện đồng bào trao Kiến nghị lên Trung Tá Tỉnh Trưởng nhờ chuyển lên Thiếu Tướng Chủ Tịch Ủy Ban Hành Pháp Trung Ương.
[Highlands-language] Ơi Chủ Tịch Hội Đồng Tỉnh pơ ala ană bon sang pơyơr hră Kiến Nghị Khua Bao Pleiku kiang mơ-it đi kơkhua 2 asăr pơtŭ djă apan bruă pơjơnum tơlơi phian.

Đại diện đồng bào ty nạn cộng sản bày tỏ lòng căm thù và lên án Cộng sản xâm lược.
[Highlands-language] Mơnuih pơala ană bon sang đuăi mơng tơlơi tơnap tap ayat alin prai wai lang pơblang tơlơi sat hang bơrơmut kơ ayat alin prai mut blah wang.

Anh em xích lô đạp và xe Lam cũng tham gia đoàn biểu tình.
[Highlands-language] Ayŏng addơi rơdeh si klô hang rơreh Trilambretta hmâo nao hrom mơbit hang bing ruai rơbat mơn.

SP-984

[In photographs: banners] NHÂN DÂN VIỆT-NAM TRI ÂN SỰ GIÚP ĐỠ TẬN TÌNH CỦA NƯỚC BẠN HOA-KỲ ... [illegible]; [illegible] ĐỒNG CHIẾN ĐẤU CHỐNG CỘNG SẢN [partly illegible]

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

THE PEOPLE OF PLEIKU ACCLAIM THE HONOLULU SUMMIT CONFERENCE AND DENOUNCE THE PLOT OF NEUTRALITY AND SHAM PEACE

[Highlands-language text not separately translated; it parallels the Vietnamese.]

Hundreds of the people held a rally on 13 February 1966.

The rally turned into a protest march through the Town.

The Chairman of the Provincial Council, representing the people, hands a Petition to the Lieutenant Colonel, Province Chief, asking that it be passed on to the Major General, Chairman of the Central Executive Committee.

A representative of the people who have fled communism voices hatred and condemns the Communist aggression.

Pedicab and Lambretta [minibus] drivers also joined the protest column.

SP-984

[In photographs: banners] THE VIETNAMESE PEOPLE ARE GRATEFUL FOR THE WHOLEHEARTED HELP OF THE FRIENDLY NATION, THE UNITED STATES ... [illegible]; [illegible] FIGHT TOGETHER AGAINST COMMUNISM [partly illegible]