Word: puppeteered
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...Chinese are getting the scraps of political influence in the new Red colony. Of North Korea's top four ministers, three are Soviet citizens, while the fourth, Premier Kim II Sung, is a Russian puppet of long standing. Of the seven Deputy Premiers, six belong to the Russian-controlled "Soviet faction," while only one pays allegiance to the "Yenan faction," as the Red China side is called. Of the 15-man Presidium, ten members are "Soviets" against only two "Yenans" and three local North Korean Reds. Even culturally, the Chinese are in eclipse (Pyongyang high-school students have...
...years, until they were expelled in the 10th century by native Annamites who were themselves of part-Chinese stock. About 150 years ago, the Annamites split into warring factions, and French missionnaires and traders moved in along the coast. By 1802, the French were strong enough to install a puppet king on the imperial throne of Annam; by 1870, the French army was ashore to protect French interests; by 1900, the French had all of Indo-China...
During World War II Diem had dealings with Frenchmen. Japanese and other Vietnamese nationalists, but he joined none of them. In January 1946 he refused to join the puppet regime of Communist Ho Chi Minh. stoutly averring that he would no more cooperate with Communists than with the French. (A few months later, the Communists murdered one of Diem's five brothers, reportedly by burying him alive.) In August 1949 Diem also refused to join the Vietnamese government of Bao Dai, insisting upon complete independence for Viet Nam and a free hand for himself. "He must have...
...Sure Thing. For a while he did. He became a frontman for the Reds: chairman of the East zone puppet Christian Democratic Union, and the non-Communist Foreign Minister of East Germany. He sold out his people, signing away to Poland all Germany east...
...spent the prewar years in the ranks of those who demanded immediate freedom from the U.S. at all costs, by World War II was one of the islands' "Big Five" political leaders. With Jose Laurel he was in the Japanese puppet regime during occupation, serving in a manner which Filipinos have come to regard as in the best interests of his countrymen. Recto, who insisted on being tried as a collaborator after the war to clear himself of all taint (he was acquitted), and Laurel both still resent bitterly General Douglas MacArthur's postwar treatment of them...