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title: We Quit the Lao photo poster (script not identified)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/we-quit-the-lao-surrender-photo-poster-1956/
description: A blue-and-cream leaflet-poster titled in NARA's catalogue 'We Quit the Lao'. Tagged by technique, with source and rights.
section: Collection
---

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[![We Quit the Lao photo poster, 1956 US poster: A blue-and-cream leaflet-poster titled in NARA's catalogue 'We Quit the Lao'.](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/we-quit-the-lao-surrender-photo-poster-1956.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/we-quit-the-lao-surrender-photo-poster-1956.jpg)

# We Quit the Lao photo poster (script not identified)

A blue-and-cream leaflet-poster titled in NARA's catalogue 'We Quit the Lao'. A group of ten uniformed men stands and kneels in a palm grove around rifles stacked upright and laid on the ground, with a headline in curled script above and a paragraph of text below. The tell is testimonial: the men are shown as their own evidence for the message, but the text on the sheet is not legible to this cataloguer, so the argument is not reconstructed here.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Testimonial](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/testimonial/)

## Text on the object

Original (Unidentified (Khmer-type script)) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
[Headline in curled script, illegible]
[Paragraph of about six lines, illegible]
```

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

```
[Not translated: script and text could not be read reliably. NARA's catalogue title is 'We Quit the Lao'.]
```

Script not read. Transcription to be completed by a reader of the language.

[← 1956...Another command decision](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/berryman-1956-another-command-decision-1956/) [Viet Nam and the Fight Against Communism (pamphlet for the Manila anti-Communist league conference), contents page →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/viet-nam-fight-against-communism-contents-1956/)

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