Word: puppeteered
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...Germany, the U.S. system is pitted against Soviet totalitarianism. The Russian strategy is to sit it out and wait for U.S. impatience and renascent isolationism to call the G.I.s home. This would be the signal for a Communist underground in the south to emerge, combine with the Communist puppet government in the north and make all Korea into a Soviet satellite...
...made good progress in the campaign to clear the Tientsin-Pukow railway line, one of the major links between northern and central China. The Communist position in south Shantung had been disorganized by the defection of General Ho Peng-chu, who had been first a Japanese, then a Communist puppet. Ho was captured by the Communists eleven days after he switched over to the Government with his 15,000 men; but the damage had been done, and the Nationalists were able to clear a considerable stretch of track...
Ancient Yungnien, 200 miles south of Peiping in Hopeh Province, had weathered 13 centuries of Mongol, Tartar and Manchu invasion before it began crumbling under the rain of friendly bread. The Japanese, who had occupied the city, abandoned its 35,000 citizens in August 1945 to a ragtag puppet garrison, which was quickly adopted-but not reinforced -by the Nationalist Government. When Chinese Communist forces neared, the garrison breached the banks of the nearby Fu Yang River and turned Yungnien into a Nationalist fortress in a vast, Red-bordered lake...
...were reluctant to admit that native unrest has been stirring for years. Some Hollanders were inclined to blame it all on the Japs. Said Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy, The Netherlands' wartime Premier in Exile: "We are in danger of losing the war." Others blamed it all on a Jap puppet. Said an Amsterdam cigar-store proprietor last week: "This fellow Soekarno is just a crook and a collaborator who is certainly going to turn Communist within the next five years. We have killed our own quisling Mussert in Holland-we ought to shoot Soekarho...
...whose flamboyant tones were muted only slightly by the black robes of the Roman Catholic priesthood, fat, bullet-headed Josef Tiso had successively sold out the Slovaks to the Austrians and Hungarians, and then helped sell out the Czechoslovak Republic to the Nazis. In 1939, he became the first puppet President of a subjugated nation. To the court opening his trial for treason, Tiso explained that he held the puppet presidency of Slovakia only to safeguard Slovak interests. This didn't much impress Slovaks with long memories, nor did it impress the Vatican, which has said no single word...