SLOGAN WAR
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(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) SAIGON, March 19.
Thousands of leaflets, carrying a photograph of dead North Vietnamese soldiers after a battle, have been dropped on Hanoi and Haiphong by United States planes. The leaflets, designed by the psychological warfare department of the United States mission in Saigon, carry the legend: “Born in the North, to die in the South.”
They are designed to have a “scare” effect by depicting the fate that could be in store for North Vietnamese soldiers who are sent south.
The sources said many North Vietnamese soldiers who have been found dead or taken prisoner both in the city of Hue and elsewhere in South Vietnam’s northern provinces, carry on their arms the tattooed slogan—borrowed from the American propaganda machine that they have made their own: “Born in the North, to die in the South.”
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31633, 20 March 1968, Page 13
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