Word: puppeteered
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When Washington declared that it would defend West Berlin as if it were U.S. soil, Pravda jeered that "the creation of a war psychosis" could not keep the peace-loving Soviet Union from unselfishly handing over its control of the Allied traffic to West Berlin to its puppet government. A six-man Soviet-East German commission met in East Berlin to arrange take-over details. "Once again the eyes of the world are upon us," tough Socialist Mayor Willy Brandt (see box) told West Berlin's Parliament. "We have no weapons, but we have a right to live...
...possible for it to maintain. The specific nature and purpose of military aid makes it more honest although perhaps less self-righteous and should be an appreciable advantage from the point of view of the donor country. There are no grounds for regarding the new regime as a puppet seeking to perpetuate itself by means of any foreign military...
...maneuver within the bonds of Russian domination. With their customary stubbornness, the Poles had at first refused to join in the general satellite rejoicing over the Hungarian executions. Speaking in Poznan, Polish Foreign Minister Adam Rapacki said that Gomulka agreed to visit Budapest two months ago only after Hungarian Puppet Janos Kadar assured him that the final disposition of the Nagy group would be "bloodless." The Secretariat of the Polish Communist Party circulated a letter declaring that Polish Communist leaders "disassociated" themselves from the executions...
...leading anti-Reds. Countless others are in prison, notably Hungary's top novelist, Tibor Dery, 64; his latest book, Niki, the Story of a Dog, which is really a quiet indictment of the police state, will be published in the U.S. this fall. What has irked the puppet Kadar regime more and more in recent months is the "silent strike" of Hungary's unjailed writers, who refuse to raise a pen in salute to the government. Kadar's literary commissar is a hack essayist aptly named George Boloni, who is vainly trying to woo or to coerce...
Still stern to the memory of his onetime commander, General Charles de Gaulle refused a request from the widow of Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain, wavering head of the fascist puppet Vichy government during World War II, asking that her husband's remains, now on the lonely Ile d'Yeu, be transferred to a graveyard at Verdun, site of his great 1916 defensive victory over the Germans...