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
- Date
- 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, no date (probably 1957). National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6949090, 306-PPB-183).
Text on the object
SEATO COLLECTIVE SECURITY -- THE PATHWAY TO PEACE SOUTHEAST ASIA TREATY ORGANIZATION
