POLITICAL CARTOONS IN NANKING NEWSPAPER STRESS ALLEGED US USE OF BW AND MASSACRES OF POWS

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000700080307-1
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 8, 2011
• Sequence Number: 307
• Publication Date: September 10, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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LANGUAGE
COUNTRY China
SUBJECT Political - Propaganda
HOW
PUBLISHED Daily newspaper
THERE
PUBLISHED yanking
DATE
PLIBL*HED 6 - 17 Jun 1952
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A survey of 24 issues of the Ranking Rain-hua Jih-
that political cartoons emphasize alleged VS maltres maent for ofJCaoaaua52trpris-
oners of war and bacteriological warfare. The cartoons manifest a ands
d
effort to sustain the high degree of emotionalism with which US was propaganda
bas been presented to domestic Chinese audiences.
Five political cartoons appeared in the 6, 9, 11, 14, and 17 June 1952
issues of the Ranking newspaper; of these, two treated of the prisoner of war
incidents on Koje Island, two repeated bacteriological warfare allegations, and
one desith nimaltaneoasiy with both issues. Three cartoons originated in Soviet
papers and two esee from Chinese Cotsmunist sources. The
was directed against lending US political and military officialsp~esidentck
Truman, Secretary of State Acheson, General Ridgway, and General Clark. Rele-
vant information on each of the five cartoons appears below.
1. Title: "Two Cuffs on the Bar"
Source: Nanking Hsin-hua , 6 June 1952
Description: President Truman end Secretary of State Acheson, in earl-
cature, standing before a microphone. Secretary of State Acheson holds a sheet
of paper on which is written: 'Acbcaon: '17e have never waged bacteriological
warfare.'" president Truman also holds a sheet of paper on which is written:
"Tra:mant.'We treat prisoners of war on the basis of humanitarian principles.'"
Each figure has an enlarged ear on which the following is written: on Secre-
ta
ry of State Acbeson's,"Joint statement of Quinn and Enoch," and on President
Truman's, "The
in the backgroundebesside a bond-d and Carlson." A germ bomb appears prominently
smeared club.
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 2, 71t1A: "T;:__. 'Hraaitarian' Cnn,7nce"
Sa s ce: tiisnkiLg $s in-Ir,ta
9 June 1951
Description: bottle is l'a.n, in caricature snatching a bottle from
the the mow infant Ch iofts a baby. e.ted The "The bottle is abeled"Itcreuced taxes"; the Mother holding
a tobott American people." Vaiting with an d
utstretehed
era to tad's the lo 13, a aaen in top )"It 1 be=_3 't bcnkar i~. Wall Streoc
-3ith hJ. eit iuud holds a ha
irk to.receive the bottle. llow bomb in =+hich in cradled a noel i rat
Cn
Its bib is s fait..
w3rPara." ~tt~n the vordo "Racteriolo eal
3. Titl.!: "Paris. 11,1eomes' the P]ag? Ceeeral"
Source: Rankin {Hein Jih-r._:a
in, 11 Juan 1952;
l avda 2 June 1952 origir..slly iblishsd
Dearription: General Ridgway, caricatured as a ratiholding a
dermic syringe and carried on the shoulders of Schunan and Pny. Above the
a,;ronp are the written words, "Down with R1dg ay, the cutioner:" Under the
cartoon is printrd the follob-ing editorial note: "On 27 May 1952 wren General
P.idgaay, the newly appointed Snprasae Cc snder of the North Atlantih Aggrecoor
Forces, arrived in Paris, Parisinnn cad people throughout F,renco, d"-7,21t'e rolla
interferenr_= etid vio1ctc_, c,sried out deeountratione
test meetings. They shouted, "Down with Aid a? ' eparaded, acid Mugs pro-
out; Plague, General Ridgeway:" This cavteon originally
1952 in Pravda. appeared oe orued "Gat
on 2 June
4. Title: "US Executioner in Korea"
Source: Ranking ?~ ,i1h- io
in Prnvd:. , 14 June 1952; originally published
Description: Caricature of General Clark standing inside prisoner-of-
war compound on Xoje Inland, He Is Chown ankle-deep in the blood of dead'Cca
munist prisoners Who lie scattered within the enclosure. In his left hand
(eueral Clark hoa the severed heads of two Communist prisoners of par in
his right hard gran a blood--c-eared are. On his back is slung a Placard read.
lag "We bring you culture and civilization."
5 Title: "The Truth About So-Called 'Voluntary Repatriation'"
Source; Masking Hein-hue Jih-pan,
Fzveat ,
in 17 June 1952; originally published
Description: Comaunist prisoner of war manacled, hand and foot, to
an upright pole. His ertended, manacled right arm is being tatooed by a US
A* y general while a US military guard covers the prisoner with an army auto-
matic pistol. Blood from the tatooing drops on a sheet of paper upon which are
written the word.: "I an voluntarily resisting repatriation."
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