# In a Changing World: John Foster Dulles in Marathi, signed by the USIS A Marathi-language panel poster for India headed "...In a Changing World," signed United States Information Service and filed by the National Archives under 1 January 1958. It opens with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles in Cleveland on 18 November 1958 and runs through panels on independence, the Arctic, atomic medicine, space and the UN (NAID 6948791). - Home - Archive - In a Changing World: John Foster Dulles in Marathi, signed by the USIS In a Changing World poster (Marathi, distributed in India) In a Changing World: John Foster Dulles in Marathi, signed by the USIS A signed USIS poster in Marathi, "...In a Changing World," quotes John Foster Dulles beside Nautilus, Pioneer and atomic medicine. NAID 6948791. ## Techniques named on the archive record Glittering generalitiesCard stackingTestimonial DateJanuary 1, 1958Made byU.S. Information Agency (predecessor: State Department International Information and Educational Exchange Program), Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East seriesMediumPosterCountryUnited StatesRegimeEisenhower AdministrationNARANAID 6948791; Record Group 306SourceIdentified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they areSourceU.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, 1958. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6948791, 306-PPB-32). Object, image, and catalog record from the FRAME archive. Text on this page is CC BY 4.0. Image rights are as the archive records. Full record at propagandaarchive.org A Marathi-language panel poster for India headed "...In a Changing World," signed United States Information Service and filed by the National Archives under 1 January 1958. It opens with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles in Cleveland on 18 November 1958 and runs through panels on independence, the Arctic, atomic medicine, space and the UN (NAID 6948791). ## The panels A quotation from the Secretary of State heads the sheet. Below it, five sections each begin with the word for "change" and pair a short quotation with pictures and captions: the end of colonialism, the polar regions, atomic power, outer space, and law and order. The archive lists the photographs as a speaker, two engineers, a polar map, a cancer-treatment machine, a rocket and the UN building; the captions place the machine at Columbia University and name the rocket as the Pioneer moon probe. The last line names the sender. “...बदलत्या जगांत” [...] १८ नोव्हेंबर १९५८, क्लीव्हलॅंड, ओहायो. अमेरिकेचे परराष्ट्रमंत्री श्री. जॉन फॉस्टर डल्लेस. [...] युनायटेड स्टेट्स इन्फर्मेशन सर्व्हिस [English, as given by the archive:] “...in a changing world” “The world ‘is living and therefore changing,’ and consequently an attempt to freeze any order of society ‘is bound, in the long run, to jeopardise the peace of mankind’.” 18 November 1958, Cleveland, Ohio. U.S. Secretary of State Mr. John Foster Dulles. [...] Change... from colonialism to freedom. ‘The United States supports political independence for all peoples who desire it....’ [...] United States Information Service Transcription and translation in the FRAME record. The archive labels the English a machine translation not verified by a fluent reader and warns that a few Devanagari conjuncts may be mis-rendered where the print is small. Full record at propagandaarchive.org. NAID 6948791, local id 306-PPB-32. ## A signed sheet, and a puzzle in the date This poster says who made it. Its last line is the United States Information Service, and FRAME classes the source as openly identified. The National Archives files it in Record Group 306 with the agency's posters for Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. The catalog date is 1 January 1958. The sheet's own text cannot be that early: it quotes a speech given on 18 November 1958, and a caption reports the Nautilus voyage of 5 August 1958. The record does not explain the gap. The archive holds the same title in English (NAID 6948792) and Gujarati (NAID 6948790) under the same date. ## Progress by selection FRAME tags glittering generalities, card stacking and testimonial. The testimonial is Dulles. The card stacking is the choice of panels: a submarine voyage, a cancer machine and a moon probe stand for the world's progress, and all three are American. The glittering phrase is the last heading, "from anarchy to order," under which the United States says it has tried "by its own example" to emphasise "the importance of law and justice." The signature matters. A reader in India could see that this was the American government speaking about itself, and could weigh the boast accordingly. That is the standard the U.S. Information Agency hub applies, and this sheet meets it. The space panel can be set beside Survival in Space from the same year, and the atomic panel beside Atoms for Peace, page 1. ## Sources - FRAME object record, In a Changing World poster (Marathi, distributed in India), catalog date 1 January 1958. U.S. Information Agency (predecessor: State Department International Information and Educational Exchange Program), Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East series. - U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 306, NAID 6948791 (306-PPB-32), retrieved by the archive 4 October 2026. Rights as recorded: public domain (U.S. government work). Canonical: https://americanpropaganda.org/collection/in-a-changing-world-marathi-india-1958/