--- title: A Safe and Easy Way Back to the Just Cause (River and Coast Chieu Hoi Poster) url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/safe-easy-way-back-to-the-just-cause-river-coast-1965-1969/ description: A portrait sheet (code SP-1763) tells people along the rivers and coast how to rally by boat under the Chieu Hoi policy. section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. A Safe and Easy Way Back to the Just Cause [![A Safe and Easy Way Back to the Just Cause, 1965 US poster: A portrait sheet (code SP-1763) tells people along the rivers](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/safe-easy-way-back-to-the-just-cause-river-coast-1965-1969.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/safe-easy-way-back-to-the-just-cause-river-coast-1965-1969.jpg) # A Safe and Easy Way Back to the Just Cause (River and Coast Chieu Hoi Poster) A portrait sheet (code SP-1763) tells people along the rivers and coast how to rally by boat under the Chieu Hoi policy. Four photographs show Vietnamese Navy craft and two patrol boats flying the U.S. flag, and a three-step box instructs: hide weapons for later hand-in and reward, approach the pictured boats with both hands raised, and expect a friendly reception and transfer to a Chieu Hoi centre. The photographs let the reader recognise the vessels, while the steps and the closing appeal present surrender as safe and easy. ## Propaganda techniques used in this poster [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Testimonial](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/testimonial/) ## Text on the object Original (Vietnamese) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` CON ĐƯỜNG AN TOÀN VÀ DỄ DÀNG TRỞ VỀ CHÍNH NGHĨA ! CÁC BẠN Ở VÙNG BẾN NƯỚC, DỌC THEO SÔNG BIỂN CÓ THỂ TRỞ VỀ NHƠN CHÁNH SÁCH CHIÊU HỒI CỦA CHÍNH PHỦ. CÁC BẠN MUỐN TRỞ VỀ VỚI CHÁNH NGHĨA QUỐC GIA THÌ NÊN THEO ĐÚNG NHỮNG LỜI CHỈ DẪN SAU ĐÂY: 1— GIẤU KỸ SÚNG ĐẠN CỦA CÁC BẠN, NHỚ NƠI CẤT GIẤU ĐỂ SAU ĐẾN LẤY, ĐEM NẠP, LĨNH THƯỞNG. 2— ĐẾN GẦN TÀU THUYỀN HẢI-QUÂN VIỆT-NAM HAY ĐỒNG MINH, CÓ IN ẢNH TRÊN ĐÂY. HAI TAY DƠ LÊN CAO ĐỂ TỎ THIỆN CHÍ CỦA CÁC BẠN. 3— THỦY THỦ ĐÃ ĐƯỢC CHỈ THỊ NIỀM NỞ TIẾP ĐÓN CÁC BẠN VÀ ĐƯA CÁC BẠN ĐẾN MỘT TRUNG TÂM CHIÊU HỒI. HÃY TRỞ VỀ NGAY BÂY GIỜ VỚI CHÍNH NGHĨA QUỐC GIA ĐỂ CÙNG TOÀN DÂN XÂY DỰNG NƯỚC VIỆT-NAM ĐỘC LẬP, PHÚ CƯỜNG. SP-1763 ``` English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader) ``` A SAFE AND EASY WAY TO RETURN TO THE JUST CAUSE! You, in the harbour areas and along the rivers and sea, can return immediately under the government's Chieu Hoi policy. If you want to return to the national cause you should follow these instructions exactly: 1— Hide your weapons and ammunition carefully, remember the hiding place so you can later fetch them, hand them in and receive a reward. 2— Approach a Vietnamese Navy or Allied vessel, pictured here. Raise both hands high to show your good will. 3— The sailors have been instructed to welcome you warmly and take you to a Chieu Hoi centre. RETURN RIGHT NOW TO THE NATIONAL CAUSE, TO BUILD TOGETHER WITH ALL THE PEOPLE AN INDEPENDENT AND PROSPEROUS VIETNAM. SP-1763 ``` Translation is FRAME's own literal rendering from the poster's Vietnamese text. Vietnamese diacritics are transcribed as printed to the best of legibility at this image resolution; a few marks in small print could not be fully verified. [← Thế tất thắng của Q.L.V.N.C.H. (Success of the Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/rvnaf-allied-success-poster-1965-1969/) [Self-Help Project Brings Prosperity to Vinh Quang Hamlet →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/self-help-project-brings-prosperity-to-vinh-quang-hamlet-1965-1969/) ## More propaganda examples that use the same techniques - [Fragments of the Abydos king list from Ramesses II's temple, in the British Museum: rows of royal cartouches](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/abydos-king-list-ramesses-ii-temple-british-museum/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer) - [Behistun (Bisotun) rock relief and trilingual inscription of Darius I: the king, two attendants and the bound rebel leaders beneath the winged figure of Ahuramazda](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/behistun-relief-darius-and-rebels-521bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Name-calling, Testimonial). Content note: Shows bound captives before the king, and the inscription records the mutilation and public execution of rebel leaders, as the king's own account. - [Tomb of Darius I at Naqsh-e Rustam: the king in relief beside his inscription DNa, c. 490 BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dna-inscription-darius-i-naqsh-e-rustam-490bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Testimonial, Card stacking) - [Line drawing of the Great Kadesh battle relief on the walls of the Ramesseum, from Breasted's History of Egypt](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kadesh-relief-ramesseum-breasted-drawing-1275bce/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer). Content note: A drawing of an Egyptian royal battle relief showing Hittite soldiers and horses killed and drowned, as the king's monument presented the battle; it is a one-sided image made by the winning side's own account. - [Persepolis, Apadana staircase relief: a figure with an animal from a procession of delegations, early fifth century BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/persepolis-apadana-delegate-relief-500bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Manufactured consensus) - [Alabaster relief, Assyrian troops storming a citadel, from Nineveh (reign of Sennacherib)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/relief-sennacherib-storming-citadel-nineveh-704bce/) (Neo Assyrian Empire · 0000 · Card stacking). Content note: An Assyrian palace relief of troops storming a fortified city, with a file of figures below; Assyrian royal reliefs and texts record killing, mutilation and deportation, shown as carved, with the historical context and scholarly dispute on the regime page. - [Colour lithograph of the Latin text of the Res Gestae Divi Augusti on the wall of the temple of Roma and Augustus at Ancyra, with the heading in large letters (Perrot, Guillaume and Delbet, 1872)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/lithograph-res-gestae-ancyra-heading-0014/) (Roman Empire · 0014 · Card stacking, Glittering generalities) - [Silver denarius of Vespasian, reverse IVDAEA with a trophy of arms and a seated mourning woman](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/denarius-vespasian-judaea-capta-0070/) (Roman Empire · 0070 · Card stacking). Content note: A Roman victory coin showing a mourning female figure as the personification of the conquered province of Judaea after the Roman suppression of the Jewish revolt; shown as struck, with the historical context on the regime page.