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title: SEATO poster 181, flag ring (Bengali, Karachi)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/seato-poster-181-flag-ring-bengali-karachi-1957/
description: 'A Bengali-language SEATO poster in the flag-ring design: eight member-state flags and olive sprigs around a circle of clasped hands.'
section: Collection
---

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[![SEATO poster 181, flag ring, 1957 US poster: A Bengali-language SEATO poster in the flag-ring design](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/seato-poster-181-flag-ring-bengali-karachi-1957.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/seato-poster-181-flag-ring-bengali-karachi-1957.jpg)

# SEATO poster 181, flag ring (Bengali, Karachi)

A Bengali-language SEATO poster in the flag-ring design: eight member-state flags and olive sprigs around a circle of clasped hands. The slogan reads 'Mutual cooperation for peaceful progress'. The tell is glittering generalities and transfer: peace, progress and joined hands are attached to a security alliance, and the member flags stand for shared membership.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

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

```
সিটো

শান্তিপূর্ণ অগ্রগতির জন্য
পারস্পরিক সহযোগিতা

দক্ষিণ-পূর্ব এশিয়া চুক্তি সংস্থা
```

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

```
SEATO

Mutual cooperation for peaceful progress

Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
```

[← They'd better not be planning on a Saint-nik!](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/berryman-theyd-better-not-be-planning-on-a-saint-nik-1957/) [SEATO poster No. 2, headquarters map (Bengali) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/seato-poster-2-headquarters-map-bengali-1957/)

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