Word: puppeteer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...West resolutely girded for any Communist-made showdown on Berlin, East German Puppet Boss Walter Ulbricht showed signs of nervousness. He ordered the 100,000 men of East Germany's "People's Army" alerted to "maximum combat readiness" and gave them their first assignment: to use "all means" to try to stop the debilitating (and embarrassing) flow of refugees through Berlin to the West-an average of 1,000 per day last week. The Communists began to evict East Berliners who work in West Berlin from their homes, mounted a show trial of five East Germans charged with...
...setting up a puppet East German government that is "no more than an extension of its own authority," the Soviet Union effectively contradicts the one principle that must underlie any peace treaty: German self-determination. "The United States Government continues to believe that there will be no real solution of the German problem . . . until the German people are reunified on the basis of the universally recognized principle of self-determination." But the Soviet Union, "by denying freedom of choice to 17 million East Germans" has not permitted "freedom or choice to the German people as a whole...
With the satisfying presence of some 20 Soviet divisions at his elbow, Ulbricht runs his puppet nation from an opulent, chandeliered office in Niederschonhausen Palace, onetime residence of the wife of Frederick the Great, in the Pankow section of Berlin. There he puffs black cigars and barks orders in a guttural Saxonian accent that is the butt of gibes among his unwilling subjects. At day's end he retires to a sumptuous fieldstone house in the residential enclave for Communist bigwigs near Liepnitz Lake, where he, his Communist wife Lotte and a 17-year-old daughter share the comforts...
...sign a German peace treaty, the Western answers argue that no treaty is possible until the completion of negotiations on German reunification. To the chief Soviet threat-a separate peace treaty with East Germany, which would force Berlin-bound Allied convoys to deal with the Volkspolizei of belligerent Puppet Chief of State Walter Ulbricht-the West will firmly answer that it will accept no curbs on the indisputable Allied right of free access to Berlin...
...seems. At midweek, three nervous exiles returned from Puerto Rico to test the government's much-ballyhooed "liberalization." It was their return that set off the demonstrations. To their amazement, Trujillo's heirs-the old man's son Ramfis and his puppet President Joaquin Balaguer-gave them complete freedom. At every speech and rally they were greeted by ever-larger crowds, who were obviously losing their fear of police reprisal. Said one demonstrator last week: "I was frightened, so I got drunk. I came here drunk this morning. But I'm not afraid...