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title: SEATO poster 183, flag ring (English, no date)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/seato-poster-183-flag-ring-english-undated/
description: 'An English-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 183, flag ring (English, no date)

An English-language SEATO poster in the flag-ring design: eight member-state flags and olive sprigs around a circle of clasped hands, with the slogan 'Collective security, the pathway to peace'. The tell is glittering generalities and transfer: peace and joined hands are attached to a military alliance, and the 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 (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
SEATO

COLLECTIVE SECURITY --
THE PATHWAY TO PEACE

SOUTHEAST ASIA TREATY ORGANIZATION
```

[← Pishraft-e Iran wall news poster, No. 49: Islamic Center, nurses (Farsi, Tehran)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/pishraft-e-iran-wall-news-poster-49-islamic-center-shiraz-farsi-tehran-1957/) [AUA Language Center poster 83a: C-J mouth diagram (English phonetics poster distributed in Bangkok) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/aua-language-center-poster-83a-c-j-english-bangkok-1957/)

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