--- title: Euphemism / doublespeak propaganda in the collection url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/technique/euphemism/ description: Browse all 32 items from objects tagged euphemism / doublespeak in the FRAME collection, listed by date, each with its techniques, issuer, date and source. section: Collection --- ![Illustration: a dossier collage of an evidence wall of pinned propaganda posters, leaflets and printed matter from many eras, with contact sheets and catalog labels.](https://propagandaarchive.org/static/generated/hero-collection.jpg) Technique # Euphemism / doublespeak propaganda in the collection 32 objects, listed by date. 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. Technique: Euphemism / doublespeak [The whole collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) · [Search](https://propagandaarchive.org/search/) - [詔書 (Imperial Rescript on the Annexation of Korea), Korean translation, Official Gazette of the Government-General of Korea no. 1, p. 17](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/annexation-rescript-korea-gazette-1910/) (Empire of Japan · Aug 29, 1910 · Glittering generalities, Euphemism / doublespeak). Content note: Official Japanese imperial text on the 1910 annexation of Korea, printed in Korean translation; shown as issued. - [Suomen Kansalle! (To the Finnish People!): German commander von der Goltz says German troops come as friends](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/german-goltz-suomen-kansalle-1918/) (German Empire · Mar 1918 · Glittering generalities, Euphemism / doublespeak) - [Deutsche Zeitung, Nr. 120, morning edition, front page (Berlin, 13 March 1920): "Ein angeblicher Militärputsch" (An alleged military putsch)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/deutsche-zeitung-angeblicher-militaerputsch-1920/) (Weimar Germany · Mar 13, 1920 · Euphemism / doublespeak). Content note: Front page carrying a column headed 'Sozialdemokratie und Judentum' (Social Democracy and Jewry) beside the lead on the Kapp putsch. - ["Sous le soleil équatorial" (Le Petit Journal illustré, 6 July 1924)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/petit-journal-congo-ocean-railway-1924/) (France · Jul 6, 1924 · Euphemism / doublespeak, Glittering generalities) - [Signs of Spring](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/berryman-signs-of-spring-1928/) (United States · Mar 11, 1928 · Euphemism / doublespeak) - [Human Sterilization Today](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/human-sterilization-today-1938/) (United States · 1938 · Euphemism / doublespeak, Glittering generalities, Transfer). Content note: Pro-sterilisation pamphlet using "insane and feebleminded" for patients, with a disparaging remark about Catholics. - [This Is France Overseas, One of the United Nations](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/france-this-is-france-overseas-one-of-the-united-nations-1939/) (France · 1939 · Card stacking, Euphemism / doublespeak) - [This Is the Netherlands East Indies, One of the United Nations](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/netherlands-this-is-the-netherlands-east-indies-one-of-the-united-nations-1939/) (Netherlands · 1939 · Card stacking, Euphemism / doublespeak) - [What to Do if National Insurance Cards or Books are Destroyed in an Air Raid](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-national-insurance-cards-air-raid-ministry-of-health-1942/) (United Kingdom · 1942 · Euphemism / doublespeak) - ['Instructions to All Persons of Japanese Ancestry' (exclusion order posted in San Francisco)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/exclusion-order-japanese-ancestry-1942/) (United States · Apr 11, 1942 · Euphemism / doublespeak) - [Five Years of Dragon-Swallowing -- and no end in sight!](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/berryman-five-years-of-dragon-swallowing-1942/) (United States · Jul 7, 1942 · Euphemism / doublespeak). Content note: A 1942 American newspaper cartoon showing Japan as a bespectacled, sabre-carrying army officer in the exaggerated caricature style of the period, choking on a dragon labelled The China Incident. - [Japanese Relocation (Office of War Information film), opening text card](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/japanese-relocation-owi-film-title-card-1943/) (United States · 1943 · Euphemism / doublespeak) - ["I'm conserving wool, this bathing suit's painted on." (undated, c. 1942-1945, OWI)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/owi-shows-conserving-wool-painted-on-bathing-suit-1943/) (United States · 1943 · Euphemism / doublespeak) - [Markings of U.S. chemical munitions](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/markings-of-us-chemical-munitions-1944/) (United States · 1944 · Euphemism / doublespeak) - [Radio Tokyo and Manila items on guerrilla amnesty and surrender, as monitored by the OSS (1943-44)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ph-radio-tokyo-manila-guerrilla-surrender-oss-digest-1944/) (Empire of Japan · Mar 1944 · Bandwagon, Euphemism / doublespeak) - [Attention American Soldiers! I Cease Resistance (surrender pass, leaflet 17-J-1)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/i-cease-resistance-leaflet-1945/) (United States · 1945 · Euphemism / doublespeak, Testimonial) - ['Politiele actie in Indonesie hervat' (Polygoon newsreel, chalkboard bulletin)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/politionele-actie-in-indonesie-hervat-1948/) (Netherlands · Dec 1948 · Euphemism / doublespeak). Content note: Period Dutch government wording ('police action') for a colonial military offensive in Indonesia; the bulletin's stated reason is quoted as chalked. - [Roadblock...Or Repair Work Ahead?](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/roadblock-or-repair-work-ahead-1958/) (United States · Jun 21, 1958 · Euphemism / doublespeak) - [Now I've Really seen everything](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/now-ive-really-seen-everything-1958/) (United States · Oct 25, 1958 · Euphemism / doublespeak) - [Leipziger Volkszeitung extra on the border-securing measures, handed out in Leipzig](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gdr-leipzig-extrablatt-grenzsicherung-1961/) (East Germany · Aug 13, 1961 · Euphemism / doublespeak, Big lie). Content note: Photograph of a newspaper extra whose agency caption uses the official term 'Grenzsicherungsmaßnahmen' for the closing of the Berlin border. - [Ready Power for Peace, 7th Fleet poster (English poster distributed in Manila)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ready-power-for-peace-7th-fleet-pacific-1964/) (United States · May 21, 1964 · Euphemism / doublespeak, Transfer) - [Bến-Cát bừng sáng (Ben-Cat At Dawn)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ben-cat-at-dawn-1965/) (United States · 1965 · Card stacking, Euphemism / doublespeak) - [Chiến thắng tại Bình Tuy (Victory in Binh Tuy; Our Common Goal: To Win and Serve)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/chien-thang-tai-binh-tuy-1965/) (United States · 1965 · Card stacking, Euphemism / doublespeak) - [Revolutionary Development at Hieu Xuong, Tuy Hoa! (Chương trình xây dựng nông thôn tại Hiếu-Xương Tuy-Hòa)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/revolutionary-development-hieu-xuong-tuy-hoa-1965-1969/) (United States · 1965 · Card stacking, Euphemism / doublespeak, Glittering generalities) - [TASS International Service, 'Occupation Progress', broadcast (Moscow, August 22, 1968; FBIS transcript)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/tass-occupation-progress-radio-moscow-1968/) (Soviet Union · Aug 22, 1968 · Name-calling, Bandwagon, Euphemism / doublespeak) - [Ayyuha al-jaysh al-'iraqi al-sharif (O honourable Iraqi army): Iranian Army leaflet on Saddam's 'film'](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/iran-army-leaflet-saddam-pow-film-iraqi-army-1980/) (Iran · 1980 · Name-calling, Euphemism / doublespeak). Content note: Wartime leaflet that calls Saddam Hussein a criminal, agent and charlatan, in Arabic. - ['Psychological Operations in Guerrilla Warfare' (CIA Contra training manual, Nicaragua, p. 33, 1980s)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/cia-tayacan-psyops-manual-selective-violence-1985/) (United States · Oct 18, 1985 · Euphemism / doublespeak, Glittering generalities). Content note: Typed training-manual page advising the killing of named categories of officials ('neutralize') for propaganda effect, and framing a killing as the victim's and the regime's fault. - ["25 Jahre antifaschistischer Schutzwall": Kampfappell parade, Karl-Marx-Allee, Berlin](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gdr-kampfappell-schutzwall-anniversary-1986/) (East Germany · Aug 13, 1986 · Euphemism / doublespeak, Transfer, Big lie). Content note: Photograph of a military parade with a board using the GDR's official name for the Berlin Wall ('antifaschistischer Schutzwall'); the agency caption lists named officials. - ["Ihr Tod ist uns Verpflichtung": Pioneers at the border-troops memorial, Berlin](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gdr-pioneers-border-guard-memorial-berlin-1986/) (East Germany · Aug 13, 1986 · Euphemism / doublespeak, Transfer) - [President Medvedev with FSB director Bortnikov on lifting the counter-terrorist operation regime in Chechnya (Gorki, 27 March 2009)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/medvedev-bortnikov-chechnya-cto-regime-2009/) (Russia · Mar 27, 2009 · Euphemism / doublespeak) - ['Liquidation of the threat' Russian Ministry of Defence poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/likvidatsiya-ugrozy-mod-poster-2022/) (Russia · 2022 · Euphemism / doublespeak) - [Address announcing a 'special military operation'](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/special-military-operation-address-2022/) (Russia · Feb 24, 2022 · Euphemism / doublespeak, Semantic hijacking)