Word: puppeteered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deliberately chose Holy Week to launch, through his puppet press, a campaign for repeal of the constitutional provision stating that "the federal government supports the Roman Catholic Apostolic Church...
...Americans are finding Premier Diem increasingly receptive to advice and ideas, and by no means a puppet. He refuses to be pushed or rushed. When Joe Collins proposed recently that General Vy be named army commander, Diem insisted on his own candidate. General Ty. "Sometimes," Diem confided, "Mr. Collins uses some very rough language." On other times it has been Collins who complained. "Get your experts out, get them working," he once prodded the Premier, to which Diem later referred: "It is easy for Mr. Collins to say it. He has experts. We have none." But out of the occasional...
...Commission, and Doc Sherwood is one of the governor's close advisers. The Legion is a powerful force in Indiana, where the state, with tax funds, built both state and national headquarters buildings for the organization. Craig shrugs off his enemies' charges that he is still a puppet of the Legion kingmakers. Says he: "I think the American Legion is the best political avenue for expression of ideas relating to national security, anti-Communism and many other things...
...East Germany, doddering Premier Wilhelm Pieck was roused early one morning by the reedy wailing of shawms (an obsolete sort of oboe) serenading him with a waltz beneath his bedroom window. The occasion: Puppet Pieck's 79th birthday, later marked by much handshaking with his fellow Communists, plus (to show his love for the proletariat and also for traditional good luck) a sooty clasp from a chimney sweep. Two days later, in Germany's free Western zone, Chancellor Konrad Adenauer also turned 79. After a public reception at the Bonn Chancellery, Widower Adenauer went to his modest home...
...Soviet Union unloosed all the resources of its diplomacy and propaganda. For the benefit of the Bundestag, East German Puppet Premier Otto Grotewohl ordered "spontaneous" protest marches "to topple the Paris treaties." The Kremlin followed through with a flurry of diplomatic notes which fell like poisoned confetti on the capitals of Western Europe. Russia's Molotov warned the French government that ratification would "cross out and annul" the 1945 Franco-Soviet treaty of alliance. Britain was sternly advised that the presence of U.S. air bases in East Anglia is "incompatible" with the Anglo-Soviet treaty; six other NATO nations...