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title: The Public Eye is on You, soldiers' conduct poster (English poster distributed in Asia)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/the-public-eye-is-on-you-soldiers-conduct-asia-1955/
description: 'Four large eyes each frame a cartoon of armed soldiers dealing with civilians: calming a quarrel, checking a pass at a checkpoint.'
section: Collection
---

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# The Public Eye is on You, soldiers' conduct poster (English poster distributed in Asia)

Four large eyes each frame a cartoon of armed soldiers dealing with civilians: calming a quarrel, checking a pass at a checkpoint, refusing a banknote at a car stop, and arresting a handcuffed man. Arrows say 'Be courteous', 'Be fair', 'Be honest' and 'Be firm', and the footer says 'Uphold Your People's Confidence'. The tell is glittering-generalities: virtue words are set beside scenes of soldiers' conduct, with watching eyes as the prompt.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
The Public Eye is on You..
BE COURTEOUS
BE FAIR
BE HONEST
BE FIRM
Uphold Your People's Confidence
[in scenes:] PASS; CHECKPOIN[T]; #10; POST No. 1; 711
[boxed mark:] I&E DIV
```

Scene lettering is partly cropped by the drawing (CHECKPOIN[T]).

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