--- title: United Nations' Day 1956 proclamation (English poster distributed by multiple posts) url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/united-nations-day-1956-proclamation-multiple-1956/ description: A United Nations Day poster for October 24, 1945-1956, with a white dove, the UN flag and the full text of President Eisenhower's proclamation. section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. United Nations' Day 1956 proclamation [![United Nations' Day 1956 proclamation, 1956 US poster: A United Nations Day poster for October 24, 1945-1956, with a white](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/united-nations-day-1956-proclamation-multiple-1956.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/united-nations-day-1956-proclamation-multiple-1956.jpg) # United Nations' Day 1956 proclamation (English poster distributed by multiple posts) A United Nations Day poster for October 24, 1945-1956, with a white dove, the UN flag and the full text of President Eisenhower's proclamation, countersigned by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, urging U.S. citizens to observe the day. The tell is glittering generalities and transfer: peace, freedom and justice are linked to the UN, and presidential authority is placed on the poster. ## Propaganda techniques used in this poster [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) ## Text on the object Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` UNITED NATIONS' DAY OCTOBER 24, 1945 1956 United Nations Day 1956 By the President of the United States of America A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS the United States of America joined in founding the United Nations for the purpose of maintaining international peace and security; and WHEREAS the United States has consistently supported the United Nations, the Charter of which is the outgrowth of a common desire among peoples of all nations for permanent peace; and WHEREAS in the ten years of its existence the United Nations has developed into a living, functioning organization capable of influencing world opinion on the side of peace, freedom, and justice; and WHEREAS recent additions to the membership of the United Nations have increased its vitality and its capability of achieving the aims and ideals of its Charter and fulfilling man's ancient longing for a better and a strife-free world; and WHEREAS the General Assembly of the United Nations has resolved that October 24, the anniversary of the coming into force of the United Nations Charter, should be dedicated each year to making known the purposes, principles, and accomplishments of the United Nations: NOW, THEREFORE, I, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, President of the United States of America, do hereby urge the citizens of this Nation to observe Wednesday, October 24, 1956 as United Nations Day by means of community programs that will demonstrate their faith in, and support of, the United Nations and will contribute to a better understanding of its aims, problems, and accomplishments. I call also upon the officials of the Federal, State and local Governments, the United States Committee for the United Nations, representatives of civic, educational and religious organizations, and agencies of the press, radio, television, and motion pictures, as well as all citizens, to cooperate in appropriate observance of United Nations Day throughout the country. IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States of America to be affixed. DONE at the city of Washington this 21st day of June in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-six, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eightieth. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER By the President: JOHN FOSTER DULLES Secretary of State ``` [← Iran News poster 52i, scout jamboree, US guns (Farsi, distributed in Tehran)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/iran-news-poster-52i-scout-jamboree-us-guns-farsi-1956/) [Speaking of "Bread and Circuses" →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/berryman-speaking-of-bread-and-circuses-1956/) ## More propaganda examples that use the same techniques - [Gypsum alabaster slab inscribed in cuneiform, from Nimrud (Kalhu), reign of Ashurnasirpal II](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/nimrud-slab-ashurnasirpal-ii-inscription-883bce/) (Neo Assyrian Empire · 0000 · Transfer, Glittering generalities) - [Colour lithograph of the Latin text of the Res Gestae Divi Augusti on the wall of the temple of Roma and Augustus at Ancyra, with the heading in large letters (Perrot, Guillaume and Delbet, 1872)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/lithograph-res-gestae-ancyra-heading-0014/) (Roman Empire · 0014 · Card stacking, Glittering generalities) - [Bronze sestertius of Trajan, reverse S P Q R OPTIMO PRINCIPI, S C, the emperor on horseback riding down an enemy](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sestertius-trajan-optimo-principi-0103/) (Roman Empire · 0103 · Testimonial, Glittering generalities) - [Gold solidus of Constantine I, reverse RESTITVTORI LIBERTATIS](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/solidus-constantine-i-restitutori-libertatis-0313/) (Roman Empire · 0313 · Glittering generalities) - [Gold solidus of Justinian I, reverse VICTORIA AVGGG with Victory holding a Christogram staff](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/solidus-justinian-i-victoria-avggg-0538/) (Byzantine Empire · 0538 · Transfer, Glittering generalities) - [The Armada Portrait of Elizabeth I (Royal Museums Greenwich version), oil on panel](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/armada-portrait-elizabeth-i-greenwich-1588/) (England · 1588 · Transfer, Glittering generalities) - [Medal of Elizabeth I: portrait in a ruff, reverse an ark on stormy waves with SAEVAS TRANQVILLA PER VNDAS (18th-century aftercast of a 1588 model)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/elizabeth-i-ark-medal-aftercast-1588/) (England · 1588 · Transfer, Glittering generalities) - [Frontispiece to Eikon Basilike, The Pourtraicture of His Sacred Majestie in his Solitudes and Sufferings (Hollar, 1649)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/eikon-basilike-frontispiece-hollar-1649/) (Dutch Republic · 1649 · Transfer, Glittering generalities)