Word: puppeteered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deeply religious man who was educated at Yale, Laurel has a name that seems to be magic to the Filipinos. They refuse to take seriously the charges of anti-Americanism and collaborationism which grew out of his 18 months as puppet President under the Japanese occupation. Laurel has repeatedly explained that his Actions were inspired by General Mac-Arthur, who sent word that he wanted him to stay behind to assuage the suffering of the Filipinos under the Japanese. Laurel has gone into detail in his memoirs but nowjj-efuses to publish them, because "I'm afra...
Such passion, common to both sides since Charlemagne's time, has been hotting up for weeks-ever since the Saar's French Puppet-Premier Johannes ("Jo-ho") Hoffmann announced that elections will be held next Sunday. Superficially, the vote will decide whether Joho Hoffmann's Christian People's Party or the Social Democrats will dominate the Saar Landtag for the next few years; actually, it will demonstrate whether the 968,000 Saarlanders want to stay with France, under a virtual protectorate, or prefer to rejoin the fatherland from which they gladly separated in the graveyard days...
China's claim to suzerainty over Mongolia was mostly ritual and yielding. In 1921 Russia's Bolsheviks, taking advantage of China's own Civil War, helped out a local revolution against Chinese rule, and in 1924 Bolshevik Choibalsan set up the Soviet puppet People's Republic of Mongolia (pop. 900,000), an area more than twice the size of Texas, wedged between Soviet Siberia and China...
...Purge. 36. In nearby Hungary, the puppet National Assembly dutifully crowned as Premier the hard-bitten Communist revolutionary: 1. Matyas Rakosi. 4. Georgi Dimitrov 5. Edvard Kardelj...
...winter of 1948, he was assigned to Korea. Caldwell and his Korean-speaking wife, a missionary's daughter, were stationed at Chunchon just below the 38th parallel. They set up a library, prepared films, staged puppet shows with messages that got across to illiterate Koreans. Caldwell is sure the 1948 election was "an enormous success," was shocked to find that in the U.S. it was widely criticized as undemocratic...