Word: puppeteered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Exit the Marines. There was much in the occupation to trouble the U.S. conscience. Puppet Presidents, all of the elite class, were shuttled in & out. With almost embarrassing speed, the U.S. gave Haiti a new constitution, masterminded by Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt; the document removed the defiant clause of all 16 previous Haitian constitutions forbidding foreigners to own land. Officers from the U.S. South ("they know how to handle the blacks, you know") humiliated highbred Haitians...
Troubled Morocco is a hybrid North African protectorate where France nominally holds overall authority through a puppet sultan but in turn sublets the sultan's power to Spain and a caliph in a ninth of the country. In Tetuan, tribesmen gathered last week in a vast assembly, ostensibly to "express gratitude" to their Spanish overseers. Instead, apparently with the foreknowledge of the Spaniards, the day was turned into a hate-France holiday...
...Philippines. After that," he added,"we can invite people over here from Indonesia and places like that and say, 'See what our American friends have helped us to do.' Then we can show them that we're not just an American puppet...
Listening Ears. Communist broadcasts no longer refer to French politicians as "valets of American imperialism," or to French businessmen as "capitalist bloodsuckers." Pravda has recently been lauding the French people's "energy, diligence, love of country and liberty." Sergei Obraztsov, director of Moscow's Central Puppet Theater, has been in Paris gushing that he loved France because "we and you have lived through the same struggle against a common enemy...
...most famous son of Collodi, an outlying district of the Tuscan town of Pescia, was a mischievous, woodenheaded youngster named Pinocchio. Ever since Author Carlo Lorenzini, writing under the pen name of Carlo Collodi, created Pinocchio 73 years ago, the impish antics of the bad puppet who became a good boy have delighted children the world over. Two years ago, Pinocchio added another measure to his fame. Professor Rolando Anzilotti of the University of Florence defeated his Communist opponent in the race for mayor of Pescia by promising that, if elected, he would see to it that a suitable statue...