Thai Rice Harvest, PO-19-TH (Thai poster distributed in Asia)
A Thai-language color poster showing two uniformed men with red-star caps, one raising a whip and one holding a bloodied blade labelled 'Communist', over bare-backed farmers loading sacks marked 'Thai rice'. A line of carriers winds toward a burning horizon and a giant skull. The red caption says whoever comes to own the land must use force and coercion. The tell is fear-appeal, with a single label, 'Communist', standing for every threat shown (name-calling).
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- June 5, 1951
- 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
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Truman Administration
- Leader
- Harry S. Truman
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Demonize
- Themes
- War and the military, Labor
- 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, June 5, 1951. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6949106, 306-PPB-198).
Text on the object
ใครมาเป็นเจ้าเข้าครอง คงจะต้องบังคับขับไส [on blade:] คอมมิวนิสต์ [on sack:] ข้าวไทย [second sack:] [illegible]
Whoever comes to be the master and take possession will surely have to use force and drive [the people] on. [on blade:] Communist. [on sack:] Thai rice.
Second sack lettering is partly hidden and not legible.
