English: In his book "Ceylon: Dilemmas of a New Nation" (1960), William Howard Wriggins describes the poster as follows: "A Statue of the Buddha sat under his Bo Tree at one end of the poster and the balance of the cartoon depicted a long parade led by Sir John Kotelawala on an elephant, the symbol of the U.N.P. Sir John was holding a spear pointed at the heart of the Buddha statue. Behind him on the elephant sat one of his reputedly many girl friends. In the parade that followed some were ballroom dancing and drinking champagne, others were waving the country’s principal newspapers said to be in the party’s pay. In a Buddhist country, to kill meat is abhorrent; to eat it is doubtful practice. In the foreground of the poster came a cart, bearing the carcass of a dead calf to remind the devout of the shocking irreverence committed once by the Prime Minister who himself carved a barbecued calf in full public view. In the background, several Uncle Sams held aloft large dollar signs. The poster was entitled “The fight against the forces of evil—2,500 years ago and now.” Underneath ran the caption: “In this year of Buddha Jayanti, rescue your country, your race and your religion from the forces of evil.” The allusion was plain. Many temple pictures depict a not dissimilar scene. Mara, the mythical deity of evil, rides on an elephant attacking the Buddha and his followers. And through the power of the Buddha’s purity and righteous ways, Mara is confounded, the elephant falls, and Mara is thrown to the ground where he is then helpless. This poster represented an ingenious merging of traditional indigenous imagery applied to contemporary political purposes."