General MacArthur Assumes a New Position
A seated pipe-smoking general in uniform, his coat labelled 'U.S.A.' and his trouser legs labelled 'Allied Council for Japan' and 'Far Eastern Commission', rests his boots on a map of Japan. The cartoon argues that the US commander embodies the Allied occupation bodies; the pictured merging of person and institution is a weak fit for identity-fusion.
Propaganda techniques used in this cartoon
- Date
- December 31, 1945
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Washington Evening Star (cartoonist Jim Berryman)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Cartoon
- Issuer type
- Media
- Regime
- Truman Administration
- Leader
- Harry S. Truman
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Themes
- War and the military, Empire and colonialism
- Event
- Occupation of Japan
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Records of the U.S. Senate, Jim Berryman Political Cartoons, retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
Jim Berryman, Washington Evening Star. National Archives and Records Administration, Records of the U.S. Senate, 5743136 (NAID 5743136).
Text on the object
U.S.A. ALLIED COUNCIL FOR JAPAN FAR EASTERN COMMISSION JAPAN JIM BERRYMAN [pencil line along lower edge partly cropped: "...THE NAME WAS DOUGLAS MACARTHUR - NOT CHARLIE McCA..."]
