Word: puppeteered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chinese mainland, that Chiang's is the true government of China. As the second wave of Mao Tse-tung's human sea ebbed bloodily in Korea's dark hills, the State Department also proclaimed that China's Communist government is no more than a Kremlin puppet. The dust had taken a long time to settle, but apparently it had, and the State Department could now see clearly. Said Assistant Secretary of State Dean Rusk: "We do not recognize the authorities in Peiping for what they pretend to be. The Peiping regime may be a colonial Russian...
Master & Disciple. Rusk compared Mao's government to those of another foreign invader-the Japanese puppet regimes of Manchukuo and Nanking. Another speaker, Ambassador at Large John Foster Dulles, the State Department's Republican adviser, bolstered this thesis with evidence. He reminded his listeners that Mao had repeatedly testified to his "master-disciple relationship" with Stalin, had spent nearly three months in Moscow in 1949 before returning to call on all Southeast Asia to seek liberation through "armed struggle" as part of the "forces headed by the Soviet Union." Added Dulles: "No one in his senses could assert...
...looked as though the Reds had chosen Buddha in his Panchen reincarnation to be their puppet boss in Tibet...
Although there is no evidence this side of the Iron Curtain that Puppet Premier Enver Hoxha is disloyal to Moscow, Strongman Shehu may replace him. Recently the Russians imposed a new system of food distribution: henceforth crops will be forcibly collected from the peasants, put in a central pool at Tirana. Peasants will then buy back food for their own use under the same rationing conditions and at the same high prices as city dwellers. By making Hoxha personal sponsor of the measure, the Russians made him the scapegoat of enraged farmers. Russian food policy, confiscation of property and police...
Perhaps the best fun among his last plays comes out of Shakes Versus Shav, a puppet play in which he restates his half-serious, half-mocking claim to being the Shakespeare of his own day. After Shakes and Shav have knocked each other down, argued about Sir Walter Scott and debated the relative merits of their own plays ("Couldst thou write King Lear...