Word: puppeteered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back in Berlin after a month's tour of the Communist Far East, East Germany's puppet Premier Otto Grotewohl said out loud what Red China's bosses have been soft-pedaling for the past eight months. His meaning was clear, though he phrased his words in the classic upside-down language of Communism: "The Chinese people unanimously support the peace policy of their government. They are ready to stand together to fight for the return of Formosa to the motherland...
...Universal Theory. The sticking point, so far as the Chinese Nationalists were concerned, was the Russian insistence on Outer Mongolia, a Soviet puppet state carved out of the northern part of old China, and with few, if any, outward appearances of nationhood...
...justification of its veto threat, the Chiang Government claims that Outer Mongolia is not only a fraud and puppet of Soviet Russia, but also a part of China and hence subject to the control of the Nationalists when the day of return to the mainland finally comes. Yet the claim seems to have little basis in legal fact. For the Nationalist Government of China recognized the independence of Outer Mongolia at the end of the war and established diplomatic relations with...
ITEM 1: Reunification of Germany and the security of Europe. No agreement. "We do not believe that solid peace in Europe can be based on the injustice of a divided Germany. The Soviet proposals were based on preserving the Soviet puppet regime in East Germany ... at least until Soviet control could be extended to all Germany. We tried very hard, but in vain . . . For obviously if Germany were reunified by free elections that would mean the end of the Soviet puppet regime. And this fall of the East German regime would in turn have serious repercussions on the other satellite...
...Nacionalista Party, but this year he was specifically eliminated from the party slate at Magsaysay's insistence. Senator Recto found a berth on the Liberal slate as a "guest candidate," and set off to barnstorm against his President, whom he called a "dictator" and a "U.S. puppet." Two nights before the election, in a speech at the Manila Harvard Club, he dramatically proclaimed that "Magsaysayism" was the Filipino counterpart of McCarthyism...