Qindeel photo poster on West Germany joining NATO (Urdu, Lahore)
An Urdu photo page headed 'North Atlantic Organization: West Germany's participation', with five photographs: a treaty signing, French ex-premier Mendes France shaking hands with Chancellor Adenauer, a steel crane over a rebuilt site, a defensive position, and a Belgian street banner for a united Europe. Captions include 'A new Germany is being born', 'Yesterday's enemies, today's friends' and 'Defensive strength is the guarantor of freedom'. The tell is glittering-generalities, with bandwagon in the list of fifteen member states.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- September 27, 1955
- 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
- Persuade or win support
- Theme
- War and the military
- Event
- Cold War
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), RG 306, Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work; NARA RG 306)
U.S. Information Agency / Department of State, September 27, 1955. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6948824, 306-PPB-39a-Front).
Text on the object
Poster "German Entry into NATO" Inserted in Urdu weekly Qindeel, May 22, 1955. تنظیم شمالی اوقیانوس مغربی جرمنی کی شرکت "نیا جرمنی جنم لے رہا ہے" "کل کے دشمن آج کے دوست" "تعمیر نو" "اصل اقتدار عوام کا ہے" "دفاعی طاقت آزادی کی ضامن ہے" [body columns not transcribed in full] Front
Poster "German Entry into NATO" Inserted in Urdu weekly Qindeel, May 22, 1955. North Atlantic Organization West Germany's participation "A new Germany is being born" "Yesterday's enemies, today's friends" "Reconstruction" "Real power belongs to the people" "Defensive strength is the guarantor of freedom" [body columns not transcribed in full] Front
Only the annotation, headline and photo captions are transcribed; the Urdu body columns are not transcribed in full. The handwritten lines are in English.
