| AND PICTORIAL REVIEWS. | | | |4th SECTION - DIRECTOR | | CENSORSHIP | +-------------+-------------+ | | +------+------+ | OUTPUT | +-------------+ (Source: Chart prepared before VJ-day in Propaganda Branch, G-2.)] The only aspect of psychological warfare that does not show on the chart is the Japanese political warfare system--by the test of success, the best developed by any belligerent during World War II. The Japanese very early learned the simple rule: _Political warfare cannot convert a sub-subsistence economy and government into a satisfactory system, but political warfare can convert a subsisting area into one that has the illusions of prosperity and national freedom._ To succeed in the face of economic difficulty, political warfare must be shrewd, simple, insistent, and backed up with a touch of terror. The Japanese moved into the Western colonial areas of the Far East between 1940 and 1942 (Indo-China, Malaya, Indonesia, the Philippines, parts of China, Burma, and areas inhabited by substantial Indian minorities). They organized the following "independent" governments: The Imperial Government of Manchukuo; Federated Autonomous Inner Mongolia; The Reorganized National Government of China, superseding earlier puppets; Malai (under Japanese military control but promised ultimate independence); The Republic of the Philippines; The Empire of Vietnam (later the Vietnam Republic); A dictatorship in Burma of the Adipadi; Republic Indonesia; Azad Hind (Free Indian government-in-exile) and the Azad Hind Fauj (quisling Indian National Army, which put large forces into the field against British-controlled Indian troops and helped to neutralize the entire military potential of India); The independent Kingdom of Cambodia (made independent by telling the helpless King that he need not let the French come back). These Japanese-sponsored governments flew their own flags, had enough troops to help Japan police their home areas, developed psychological warfare facilities with intensive Japanese assistance, and went through all the motions of independence. In 1944, some of them even held an international conference at Tokyo, thanking Japan for liberating all the non-White States and adopting high-sounding resolutions. (The Siamese puppet ambassador to this meeting had the unforgettable name of His Excellency, the Honorable Witchit Witchit Watakan!)