SEATO poster 184, fact sheet (Lao poster distributed in Vientiane)
A Lao-language SEATO fact-sheet poster: a world map with eight member states marked, panels on what the treaty is, its purposes and its strength, and a table of shares of world production. The tell is card-stacking: only the combined population, forces and resource totals favourable to the alliance appear, with the UN flag and a family image attached to the stated aims.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- August 15, 1956
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- U.S. Information Agency (predecessor: State Department International Information and Educational Exchange Program), Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East series
- 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, 15 August 1956. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6949091, 306-PPB-184).
Text on the object
SEATO ອົງການສົນທິສັນຍາເອເຊຍຕະວັນອອກສຽງໃຕ້ ຊີອາໂຕ ຊາດເຫຼົ່ານີ້ຮວມກັນ... ...ມີປະຊາກອນ ໑ ໃນ ໗ ຂອງໂລກ ແລະ ມີພື້ນທີ່ ໑ ໃນ ໘ ຂອງໂລກ ...ມີກຳລັງທະຫານທັງໝົດກວ່າ ໖.໐໐໐.໐໐໐ ຄົນ ກຳລັງຂອງຊີອາໂຕ: ຊີອາໂຕຄວບຄຸມ ໖໒ ໃນ ໑໐໐ (໖໒%) [illegible] ນ້ຳມັນ ໖໐ ໃນ ໑໐໐ (໖໐%) [illegible] ຖ່ານຫີນ ໕໕ ໃນ ໑໐໐ (໕໕%) [illegible] ແຮ່ເຫຼັກ ໕໐ ໃນ ໑໐໐ (໕໐%) [illegible] ເຫຼັກ ໔໐ ໃນ ໑໐໐ (໔໐%) [illegible] ການຄ້າ ຂອງໂລກ ສ່ວນສຳຄັນ ຂອງຊັບຍາກອນເຫຼົ່ານີ້ ຢູ່ເອເຊຍຕະວັນອອກສຽງໃຕ້ ຊີອາໂຕແມ່ນຫຍັງ... ຊີອາໂຕຄືສົນທິສັນຍາ ທີ່ປະເທດຕໍ່ໄປນີ້ ລົງນາມ ອອສເຕຣເລັຍ ອັງກິດ ຝຣັ່ງເສດ ຟິລິບປິນ ໄທ ສະຫະລັດອະເມຣິກາ ນິວຊີແລນ ປາກີສຕານ ...ແລະລົງນາມທີ່ ມະນີລາ ປະເທດຟິລິບປິນ [illegible] ໑໙໕໔ ຄວາມມຸ່ງໝາຍຊີອາໂຕ: [illegible]
SEATO - Southeast Asia Treaty Organization. These nations together ... have 1/7 of the world's people and 1/8 of the world's surface ... have armed forces totalling over 6,000,000 men. SEATO's strength: SEATO members control 62 in 100 (62%) of [world petroleum production], 60% of [coal], 55% of [iron ore], 50% of [steel], 40% of [world trade]. A significant part of these resources is in Southeast Asia. What SEATO is: a treaty signed by Australia, Britain, France, the Philippines, Thailand, the United States, New Zealand and Pakistan, signed at Manila, Philippines, [month] 1954. SEATO's purposes: [three panels, not legible in the scan; the parallel English sheet gives strengthening peace and democracy, mutual defence, and the well-being of the peoples of South Asia].
Lao text read from the scan; map labels and the three purpose panels are not fully legible and are marked [illegible]. The translation is literal where legible and bracketed where it follows the parallel English sheet.
