SEATO poster 182, headquarters map (English, Bangkok)

An English-language SEATO poster in blue and red. A photograph captioned 'SEATO Headquarters Bangkok' sits at the centre, with red lines running to labelled outline maps of the eight member states. The slogan is 'Collective security, pathway to peace'. The tell is glittering generalities and bandwagon: peace is the stated aim, and the radiating maps present the alliance as a broad shared undertaking.

Propaganda techniques used in this poster

Glittering generalitiesBandwagon

Date

March 11, 1957

Period

Cold War

Made by

U.S. Information Agency (predecessor: State Dept. IIE program), Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East series; sheet credited to SEATO

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

Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure

Source

U.S. National Archives (NARA), Record Group 306, Posters in Asia, Latin America, Middle East, retrieved October 4, 2026

Rights

Public domain (U.S. government work; NARA RG 306)
U.S. Information Agency / Department of State, March 11, 1957. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6949089, 306-PPB-182).

SEATO

NEW ZEALAND
PAKISTAN
PHILIPPINES
THAILAND
FRANCE
UNITED KINGDOM
AUSTRALIA
UNITED STATES

SEATO HEADQUARTERS BANGKOK

COLLECTIVE SECURITY ...
PATHWAY TO PEACE

Southeast Asia Treaty Organization