Word: puppeteered
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...with Communist Mao Tse-tung in Chungking, three of Chiang's armies had attacked Communist forces in Communist-controlled Shansi province, Kwantung, the Yangtze basin, and north of the Yellow River. In some instances, said the Communists, Chiang's troops had invoked the aid of Japanese and puppet forces. Already the Communists, by their own account, had yielded 19 towns...
General Christison, sending Dutch colonial administrators on ahead, strongly suggested that they talk things over with Soekarno and other nationalists. The colonials agreed. But from The Hague to Australia, Dutch tempers flared. Soekarno, the Netherlanders roared, was a puppet and an opportunist. The Dutch Government would talk nothing over with him; more likely it would try him as a war criminal...
...native Annamites, having tasted a puppet independence, thirsted for more. In the forlorn hope of escaping renewed colonial rule, they went on a rousing rampage. In Saigon they shot up homes, burned the market, seized Frenchmen as hostages. On roads out of town, they ambushed every foreign party that came along. An American OSS officer, Lieut. Colonel A. Peter Dewey, was shot dead (the Annamites mistook his jeep for a French car), another U.S. officer was wounded in a hell-for-leather battle...
When the Japs overran Peiping in 1937, Yenching, just five miles away, became an oasis of free learning: the Japs then were too sensitive to U.S. opinion to move in. But they ordered President Stuart to hoist the puppet-regime flag and to give personal "thanks" to the Jap militia for the invasion. Dr. Stuart refused, and got away with it. For three years before Pearl Harbor he was used to transmit peace feelers between the Chinese and the Japs. At 8:20 a.m., Dec. 8, 1941, Dr. Stuart's freedom ended...
...Pattern. Since last month's stiffening of the U.S. attitude on eastern Europe, Russia had climbed down a little way. It realized at last that the Western powers held a potent threat: they could refuse to sign peace treaties with puppet governments in Eastern Europe. For a fortnight the Russian press raged against Anglo-American interference with internal affairs of sovereign Balkan nations. London denied the charge of Balkan intrigue. Once the U.S. and Britain had taken a firm stand, direct intervention was not necessary to encourage democratic elements in eastern Europe which looked to the West for both...