World Photo Review (edition B) (English poster distributed in Asia)
A six-photograph news-style sheet under a red 'World Photo Review' masthead. Captioned pictures show a Syrian dam beside a Roman one, a new NATO Defense College commandant, 840 poplars in a Syrian reforestation project run by the Forest Service and FOA, a U.S. general presenting a $4,500 cheque to a Methodist minister to rebuild a church, and New York low-income apartment housing replacing a slum. The tell is card-stacking, a selection of favourable items, and transfer in the pairing of aid, NATO and charity.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- January 26, 1954
- 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, War and the military
- 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, January 26, 1954. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 5730169, 306-PPA-268).
Text on the object
WORLD PHOTO REVIEW A MODERN DAM, located in Syria and an ancient dam built by the Romans (right), both for irrigation to make barren soil productive. NEW COMMANDANT of NATO Defense College in Paris, Air Marshall Darvall, Royal Air Force (right) meets officials. 840 POPLARS are growing on 1.2 hectare plot as part of Syrian Forest Service—FOA project for reforestation in rural Syria. U. S. GENERAL presents check for $4500, fund contributed by his officers and men, to Methodist Minister to rebuild his church. APARTMENT HOUSING development, built for low-income families in New York City, now replaces crowded slum area. (E) EXTRA B
