U.N. Day Poster #1: Technology and Knowledge Useful to Human Progress Exist Everywhere (Japanese poster distributed in Asia)
A circular photo-montage overlaid with globe lines shows men of several nationalities working with microscopes, plant samples, survey instruments, books and papers. Japanese text says useful technology and knowledge exist everywhere, that urgent economic development depends on techniques from 'advanced countries', and that United Nations technical assistance aims to let countries that seek these techniques use them. The tell is glittering-generalities: 'human progress' and 'a happier, richer world' are stated without naming a programme.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- September 14, 1953
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- U.S. Information Agency (predecessor: State Department International Information and Educational Exchange Program), Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia series
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Eisenhower Administration
- Leader
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- Economy and finance, Science and technology
- Event
- Cold War
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), Record Group 306, Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work; NARA RG 306)
U.S. Information Agency / Department of State, September 14, 1953. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 5730103, 306-PPA-203).
Text on the object
人間の進歩に役立つ技術と知識は、世界中のどこにでもある。 どんな国にも、何か文明の役に立つものはある。全体としていへば、人類はすべての人々が、もつと幸福で豊かになる世界を造る知識と技術を持つて居るが、さし当り、急がねばならぬ経済開発に要る技術は、「先進国」に頼らねばならない。国連技術援助の目的は、こうした技術が、それを求めている国々によつて利用される事にある。 1
Technology and knowledge useful to human progress exist everywhere in the world. Every country has something that is useful to civilization. Taken as a whole, mankind has the knowledge and skills to build a world in which all people are happier and richer, but for the present the techniques needed for the economic development that must be hurried have to be sought from the 'advanced countries'. The aim of United Nations technical assistance is that these techniques be used by the countries that seek them. 1
Quotation marks 「先進国」 as printed.
