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First Anniversary of the Republic of the Philippines. In Unity Lies National Strength. [Drop title].
First Anniversary of the Republic of the Philippines. In Unity Lies National Strength. [Drop title].
[Propaganda / Philippines / WWII]

First Anniversary of the Republic of the Philippines. In Unity Lies National Strength. [Drop title].

$1,500.00 $0.00

(n. p.): [1944]. 20-3/4 x 13-7/8 inches. Offset lithographed broadside. Cream stock printed in red, blue, tan and black. Old fold lines; light staining to bottom edge; matting tape to verso of top edge; light toning. About Very Good.

A rare propaganda poster celebrating the first anniversary, in October 1944, of what was actually the Second Philippine Republic -- a fact elided in the text here. The Second Philippine Republic was a puppet state established by the Japanese during their occupation of the Philippines in WWII. It was widely opposed by Filipinos, most notably by the Hukbalahap, or Huks, a group of Central Luzon communist farmers who waged large-scale underground guerrilla warfare against the occupying Japanese.

Accompanying the poster is a 9-1/2 x 6 inch typed note on U.S Army, Psychological Warfare Branch letterhead, which states, "This poster hung all over the town of Manila celebrating the first year of Japanese occupation in the Philippines."

Not located in OCLC, although we find one copy at the Hoover Institute.

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