Word: puppeteered
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Explained one Nanking citizen: "The truth is that we have all been puppets, more or less. We have held jobs under the puppet government, or we have done business with the Japanese. After eight years you get used to it. This is our city. What will happen to us now that you have come back...
...redeeming the strategic area for their Greater Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. In 1936, five years after the Japanese had overrun Manchuria, Prince Teh transferred his allegiance to Dai Nippon. Inner Mongolia became the federal state of Meng Chiang (Mongol Border Land), and Prince Teh found himself an exalted puppet...
Among those missing: ex-Congress President Subhas Chandra Bose, 48, Cambridge-educated leader of Japan's proposed puppet government for India. Last week, he was reported killed in an airplane crash in Formosa...
...country was in an uproar. Only the soldiers and cops seemed to be still loyal to the strong man. Two key members of the Cabinet quit. Even President Edelmiro Farrell, disgusted with puppet doodling, was reportedly threatening to resign...
Henry Pu Yi, just captured by the Russians, had further cause for sadness. The ex-Manchukuo puppet's collection of dolls was all smashed up by a bunch of Jap bullies who looted his palace, the Moscow radio reported...