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
- Date
- February 4, 1955
- 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
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- War and the military, Security and surveillance
- 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, February 4, 1955. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6949066, 306-PPB-165).
Text on the object
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]).
