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title: A Warm Welcome for a Hoi Chanh
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/warm-welcome-for-a-hoi-chanh-1967/
description: A landscape sheet under a red headline shows three photographs of a named Viet Cong squad leader handing his weapon and a document to a South Vietnamese
section: Collection
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# A Warm Welcome for a Hoi Chanh

A landscape sheet under a red headline shows three photographs of a named Viet Cong squad leader handing his weapon and a document to a South Vietnamese officer. The text says he rallied in late February 1967, will be rewarded for the weapon, and that his unit was hungry and malaria-stricken. The tell is a named individual used as testimony, paired with a stated payment and claims of enemy hardship that the sheet does not source.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Testimonial](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/testimonial/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/)

## Text on the object

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

```
HỒI CHÁNH VIÊN ĐƯỢC TIẾP ĐÓN NỒNG HẬU

Trung Đội Trưởng Trương Đình Nhuận thuộc đại đội D.26 du kích quân Việt Cộng đã trở về với đại gia đình dân tộc vào cuối tháng hai năm 1967. Trong hình này đây, Trung Đội Trưởng Nhuận đang trao khẩu súng của mình lại cho Trung Úy Trần Phai, phó quận trưởng Bình Khê. Ông Nhuận đã được đưa về thăm mẹ và vợ con hiện đang sống tại một vùng an ninh. Ngày gần đây ông sẽ trở về sống với gia đình để xây dựng lại cuộc sống mới hạnh phúc.

Như tất cả các hồi chánh viên khác, Ông Nhuận được hưởng số tiền thưởng về món vũ khí mang về. Trung Đội Trưởng Nhuận cho biết rằng vì lương tâm, phẩm cách và lòng nhân đạo nên ông không thể ở lại với bọn Việt Cộng. Ông nói VC đã thâu tiền bạc, lúa gạo của dân chúng và đôi khi chém giết những người chống lại chúng. Tất cả những cán binh trong đơn vị của ông đều bị đói khát và phần đông mắc phải bệnh sốt rét rừng.

SP-1797
```

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

```
RALLIERS ARE GIVEN A WARM WELCOME

Platoon Leader Truong Dinh Nhuan of Viet Cong guerrilla company D.26 returned to the large family of the nation in late February 1967. In this picture, Platoon Leader Nhuan is handing his weapon back to Lieutenant Tran Phai, deputy district chief of Binh Khe. Mr. Nhuan has been taken to visit his mother, wife and children, who now live in a secure area. In the near future he will return to live with his family to rebuild a new, happy life.

Like all other ralliers, Mr. Nhuan receives a reward payment for the weapon he brought back. Platoon Leader Nhuan said that because of conscience, character and humanity he could not stay with the Viet Cong. He said the VC collected people's money and rice and sometimes killed those who opposed them. All the cadres in his unit were hungry and thirsty and most had contracted jungle malaria.

SP-1797
```

Diacritics transcribed as printed to the best of legibility at this image resolution.

[← Việt-Cộng hãy coi chừng!! (Viet Cong Beware!)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/viet-cong-beware-blackhorse-1967/) [A Warm Welcome for Two Hoi Chanh in Phuoc Tuy District →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/warm-welcome-for-two-hoi-chanh-tuy-phuoc-1967/)

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