Word: puppeteered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...army. Faced with the country's growing popular discontent and exhausted, inflated economy, they were trying to pressure the Caudillo into staving off revolution at his death by accepting a gradual evolution into a liberal constitutional monarchy with a relatively free press and an effective rather than a puppet Cortes. Most of them favored a constitutional monarchy with Don Juan or his son Juan Carlos on the throne as figurehead and real power at least temporarily in the hands of an army junta. Hitherto they had been concerned only about post-Franco Spain. Now increasingly there was talk that...
...going to be hearing a lot. A staunch conservative, he is the first postwar Japanese Premier whose political record (which includes a three-year stretch in Tokyo's Sugamo Prison as a war criminal) does not permit his opponents to accuse him of being a puppet...
Showing Understanding. Acutely aware that he must start by disproving Communist accusations that he is an American puppet (which he certainly is not), Kishi was ready to sign joint communiques with Burma's U Nu and India's Nehru denouncing all nuclear tests. He hopes to remain on good terms with the U.S., but his line among Asians is that "the U.S. has failed in Asia, despite great sacrifices for Southeast Asia's welfare, through lack of understanding." As the first Japanese Prime Minister since the war to visit Southeast Asia, he himself had to be wary...
...powers at Geneva were about to halt the Indo-China war by splitting Viet Nam in two-with the industrialized northern half going to Communist Ho Chi Minh. Sixteen months later Nationalist Diem took the final step. Overwhelmingly victorious in a national referendum which ousted the French puppet-Emperor, and named Diem chief of state, he proclaimed Viet Nam a republic, became its first President. Even with firm U.S. support and massive doses of military and economic aid ($450 million to date, and scheduled for about $250 million next year), his problems were enormous; e.g., his control over much...
...rare courage and sense of destiny, they agreed. Next day, as banks closed, business came to a standstill and newspapers shut down in protest, tanks and armored cars rolled into the main streets. The business strikers refused to be overawed. Rojas fueled the opposition fire by calling together his puppet Constituent Assembly and ordering it to revoke the long-established sections of the constitution which decreed that a President must be elected by direct popular vote, and that no President may succeed himself...