Word: puppeteered
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...puppet president of Japan's Republic of the Philippines, squat, bespectacled Jose P. Laurel lived in uneasy luxury. Peasant-born and Yale-educated, he occupied Manila's ornate Malacanan Palace, once the home of Manuel Quezon. He smoked special cigars with his name printed on the band. After guerrillas wounded him while he was golfing at the Wack Wack Country Club, he was provided with an armed guard of 600 men. In return for this, José Laurel-who had been a respected Manila attorney and a member of the Philippine Supreme Court -did the bidding...
...China's provinces there are upwards of 2,000,000 puppet troops, an unknown number of other collaborationists. They occupy a delicate position in the country's internal balance of power. These the Central Government's Ministry of Justice will sort out. "Justice, not leniency," it announced last week, "will be the guiding principle. . . . The test will be whether or not they were willing tools. All suspected of voluntary collaboration will have their turn before a court...
...Shall Consider." Tension mounted, eased, mounted again. Japan's General Okamura accepted Chungking's order, promised to surrender formally this week. Central Government troops moved into Canton, waited on Shanghai's outskirts. The Chinese puppet chief at Nanking, Chen Kung-po, promising to "atone for my sins," transferred allegiance to Chungking, put "1,000,000 soldiers" in the Yangtze valley at Chiang's disposal...
...Virtually independent of the Tokyo Army Ministry, it had set off the 1931 Mukden incident which led to establishment of the puppet state Manchukuo...
...Tokyo's surrender offer, Yenan's able commander in chief, General Chu Teh, rushed an order to his Communist armies: they must take over the arms of all "enemy troops" in their zones of operation. They must also take over all "administrative matters in Japanese-and puppet-occupied cities, towns and communication centers. . . . Any sabotage and resistance against the above measures will be treated as treason...