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...Korea provided the U.S. did the same in the south. In many parts of the East and elsewhere, the gesture went down as a magnanimous one. It put the U.S. on the spot. Washington could not match the Russian gesture because it knew that the Russians had fostered a puppet government in their section of Korea and backed it with a Soviet-trained and armed Korean army 100,000 strong. If the U.S. Army pulled out of South Korea, the Soviet puppets in the north could easily swallow the whole country...
Feuding Man. Earl broke with Huey, spoke of him publicly as a "big-bellied coward" and set out to oppose him. It was like trying to stop a locomotive by lying across the tracks. In 1932, when Huey went about setting up his puppet governor -one O. K. Allen, a Winnfield sawmill operator who had once lent him $500-Earl ran for lieutenant governor on the opposing ticket, and was soundly licked...
...self-government in due course. They divided the country at the 38th parallel, thus impoverishing both north and south. The Russians had forced North Koreans to boycott the U.N. supervised elections which made Rhee President, and currently were cooking a Soviet-style one-name-per-office election of a puppet government...
...Your article, "The Pink Facade" [TIME, Aug. 2], on the Communist puppet show in Philadelphia should be required reading for every American. TIME presented the real news of the Progressive Party's convention in telling how naive a group of sincere Americans can be in the face of Communist management...
...business. Where two or three were gathered together, that would be enough. This was a hoary Communist device, designed to give the leftists solid control of the party. The rules were gaveled through by Convention Chairman Albert Fitzgerald, president of the United Electric Workers, and round-faced puppet of the U.E.W.'s real bosses, Communist-line Julius Emspak and James Matles...