# Baghdad Pact map FI-M-1: "United with UK & USA," Karachi 1958

An English-language colour map, sheet FI-M-1 of the Forces Information Section, ISPR Directorate, filed with U.S. Information Agency posters, catalog date 16 February 1958. Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Pakistan are shaded green as the "Muslim member nations of the Baghdad Pact," the USSR and China red (NAID 6948821).

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      Baghdad Pact map poster FI-M-1 (English, Karachi)

      Baghdad Pact map FI-M-1: "United with UK & USA," Karachi 1958
      Baghdad Pact map FI-M-1, Karachi, 1958: Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Pakistan in green, the USSR and China in red, "United with UK & USA." NARA RG 306, NAID

## Techniques named on the archive record

Glittering generalitiesBandwagon
      DateFebruary 16, 1958Made byForces Information Section, ISPR Directorate (sheet FI-M-1); distributed via U.S. Information Agency, Asia/Latin America/Middle East seriesMediumPosterCountryUnited StatesRegimeEisenhower AdministrationNARANAID 6948821; Record Group 306SourceUnidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosureSourceU.S. National Archives (NARA), RG 306, Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East , retrieved October 4, 2026SourcePublic domain (U.S. government work; NARA RG 306) U.S. Information Agency / Department of State, February 16, 1958. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6948821, 306-PPB-36).
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  An English-language colour map, sheet FI-M-1 of the Forces Information Section, ISPR Directorate, filed with U.S. Information Agency posters, catalog date 16 February 1958. Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Pakistan are shaded green as the "Muslim member nations of the Baghdad Pact," the USSR and China red (NAID 6948821).

## What the map shows

Colour does most of the work on this map of the Middle East and South Asia. Four states are shaded dark green: Turkey, Iraq, Iran, and Pakistan, both wings. The USSR and China are red. Other states are yellow. The printed words are these.

MUSLIM MEMBER NATIONS OF THE BAGHDAD PACT

UNITED

WITH UK & USA

FOR PEACE, SECURITY, ECONOMIC

DEVELOPMENT, SOCIAL ADVANCEMENT

AGAINST AGGRESSION

SUBVERSION

FI-M-1

FORCES INFORMATION SECTION

I S P R DIRECTORATE

SCALE: 138 MILES TO AN INCH, APPROX.

Transcription in the FRAME record, read from the image; the record lists the small place-name labels separately. Full record at propagandaarchive.org. NAID 6948821, local id 306-PPB-36.

## Whose map

The sheet is signed by the Forces Information Section of the ISPR Directorate and numbered FI-M-1. The archive's maker line puts that office first and adds that the sheet was distributed via the U.S. Information Agency, in its series for Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. The catalog title places it in Karachi. The record does not say what part the agency played beyond distribution, or how many copies there were. FRAME classes the source as unidentified. A companion sheet in the archive, FI-M-2, shows the pact's flags.

## How to read it

FRAME tags it bandwagon and glittering generalities. Bandwagon, because the shaded states are joined on paper to two great powers; glittering generalities, because the printed aims are peace, security, development and advancement, with no detail. The colour scheme carries the rest. Red is kept for the USSR and China alone.

The heading chooses a frame of its own: these are the "Muslim member nations." The slogan sets them "with" the United Kingdom and the United States rather than naming those two as members, and the sheet does not say what the pact obliged anyone to do. A map is a strong form of argument because it looks like plain fact. The record's list of labels includes Kashmir and "Junagadh & Manavedar"; the archive leaves them without comment. For another U.S. Information Agency sheet that argues with a map, see the 1954 Saigon poster split at the 17th parallel. The U.S. Information Agency hub has more.

## Sources

- FRAME object record, Baghdad Pact map poster FI-M-1 (English, Karachi), 16 February 1958. Forces Information Section, ISPR Directorate (sheet FI-M-1); distributed via U.S. Information Agency, Asia/Latin America/Middle East series.

- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 306, NAID 6948821 (306-PPB-36), retrieved by the archive 4 October 2026. Rights as recorded: public domain (U.S. government work).

Canonical: https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/baghdad-pact-map-fi-m-1-english-karachi-1958/