Ủng hộ Chính phủ do Tổng thống Nguyễn Văn Thiệu lãnh đạo (Support the Government Led by President Nguyen Van Thieu): curfew leaflet, 1968

Line drawing of President Nguyen Van Thieu in a suit and tie in the foreground, with a striped national banner over his shoulder and a column of helmeted soldiers and conical-hatted civilians marching behind him. The text asks all to unite 'unanimously' behind his government and to obey the curfew. The tell: a marching column stands in for popular unanimity (bandwagon), and the banner and the troops are tied to his portrait (transfer).

Date: 1968
Period: Cold War
Made by: Government of the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam); leaflet, no issuing office or printer named
Region: Southeast Asia
Country: South Vietnam
Medium: Leaflet
Issuer type: State
Regime: Thieu Government
Leader: Nguyen van Thieu
Audience: Domestic public
Purpose: Mobilize or secure compliance
Themes: Security and surveillance, War and the military
Event: Vietnam War
Techniques: Bandwagon Transfer
Source: Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
Source: Wikimedia Commons (via Psywarrior), retrieved October 2, 2026
Rights: Public domain (South Vietnamese government work; Commons tag PD South Vietnam Government)
Government of the Republic of Vietnam, via Wikimedia Commons (source: Psywarrior).

Text on the object

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

Đồng-bào hãy đoàn-kết nhất trí ủng-hộ triệt để Chính-Phủ VNCH do Tổng-Thống NGUYỄN-VĂN-THIỆU lãnh đạo trong sứ mệnh vấn-hồi an-ninh cho xứ-sở. Đồng bào hãy tuân hành nghiêm chỉnh lệnh giới-nghiêm này để góp phần bảo-vệ an-ninh cho chính bản thân của đồng-bào!

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

Compatriots, unite unanimously and support to the fullest the Government of the Republic of Vietnam led by President NGUYEN-VAN-THIEU in its mission of restoring security to the country. Compatriots, strictly obey this curfew order so as to contribute to protecting the security of yourselves!

Typed text is slightly blurred by bleed-through; 'vấn-hồi' is printed so (the usual word is 'vãn hồi'), left as printed. The Commons description gives the same text. Translation is FRAME's own literal rendering, machine-assisted and not verified by a fluent reader.