Laos: More Propaganda than Fighting
Photograph
Laos: More Propaganda than Fighting
December 1961
Gelatin silver print
Image: 16.6 × 24 cm (6 9/16 × 9 7/16 in.)
Paper: 20.3 × 25.4 cm (8 × 10 in.)
Gift of Time-Life Books
1968.0184.0116
Inscriptions verso BC (applied label): 12/61 4) LAOS: MORE PROPAGANDA THAN FIGHTING. An elderly Laotian \ listens for news in a village square. Persuading the peaceful Laotians to resist the Soviet-supplied Pathet Lao Communist guerillas was one of the New Frontier's first major headaches. In an effore to shore up the sagging Royal Laotian forces, President...