Women's Volunteer Corps (Grey Ladies) poster, No. 354, 1964 US poster: A red, black and white Vietnamese-language photo

Women's Volunteer Corps (Grey Ladies) poster, No. 354 (Saigon)

A red, black and white Vietnamese-language photo poster headed 'Women's Volunteer Corps'. Photographs show women in Red Cross uniforms taking an oath, receiving certificates and visiting wounded soldiers in hospital. The text says the corps tends the sick and wounded without regard to person, colour, religion or politics and had 128 members. The tell is transfer: the Red Cross emblem and the wife of a general are used to lend standing to the volunteers.

Propaganda techniques used in this poster

Date
November 10, 1964
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
Medium
Poster
Issuer type
State
Regime
Johnson Administration
Leader
Lyndon B. Johnson
Audience
Foreign public
Purpose
Persuade or win support
Themes
Health, Gender and suffrage, War and the military
Event
Cold War
Source
Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
Rights
Public domain (U.S. government work; NARA RG 306)
U.S. Information Agency / Department of State, November 10, 1964. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6949279, 306-PPB-354).

Text on the object

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

ĐOÀN PHỤ NỮ CHÍ NGUYỆN

Tự nguyện an ủi những kẻ đau khổ và thiếu thốn, thăm nom và an ủi bệnh nhân, những thương binh không phân biệt cá nhân, màu da, tôn giáo hay chánh kiến và không lấy tiền thù lao: Đó là nhiệm vụ của Đoàn Phụ Nữ Chí Nguyện Hồng Thập Tự Việt-Nam.

Đoàn được thành lập ngày 3-8-1964, do sáng kiến của Bà Nguyễn-Khánh, phu nhân Trung tướng Thủ tướng, hiện nay đã quy tụ được 128 đoàn viên, sau hai khóa huấn luyện, với sự tận tình giúp đỡ của các bà "Áo Xám" Hội Hồng Thập Tự Hoa-kỳ và các bác sĩ Việt-Nam.

Bác sĩ Phạm-văn-Hạt, Chủ tịch Hội Hồng Thập Tự Việt-Nam trao cấp bằng cho bà Nguyễn-Khánh, Chủ tịch Danh dự Đoàn Phụ Nữ Chí Nguyện.

Bà Nguyễn-Khánh và toàn thể đoàn viên Đoàn Phụ Nữ Chí Nguyện Hồng Thập Tự Việt-Nam tuyên thệ trung thành với tôn chỉ nhân đạo và bác ái của Đoàn.

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

Women's Volunteer Corps.

To volunteer to comfort the suffering and needy, to visit and comfort patients and wounded soldiers without distinction of person, skin colour, religion or political view and without taking payment: this is the duty of the Vietnam Red Cross Women's Volunteer Corps.

The corps was founded on 3-8-1964 on the initiative of Mrs. Nguyen-Khanh, wife of the Lieutenant General Prime Minister, and now has 128 members after two training courses, with the devoted help of the 'Grey' ladies of the American Red Cross and Vietnamese doctors.

Dr. Pham-van-Hat, President of the Vietnam Red Cross, presents a certificate to Mrs. Nguyen-Khanh, Honorary President of the Women's Volunteer Corps.

Mrs. Nguyen-Khanh and all members of the Vietnam Red Cross Women's Volunteer Corps swear loyalty to the corps' humanitarian and charitable principles.

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