Word: puppeteered
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...Peace cannot be kept by power politics or "spheres of influence in a system of puppet governments...
Slovakia, a communications keystone for the Germans in Poland, Hungary and Austria, had been governed from strategic Bratislava by puppet Dr. Josef Tiso. When the Balkans began to crack, the Germans prepared to move into Slovakia in force, occupy road and railway lines needed for their troops. At the end of August the Slovaks rose, hauled out arms from their hiding places, seized control of central Slovakia and the industrial town of Banska Bystrica (80 miles north of Budapest...
Another alleged nation declared war on the U.S. and Britain last week: Japan's puppet government of the Philippines, headed by "President" José Laurel, one-time Supreme Court justice. He had cause to fear that his term might be growing shorter...
University students and their professors are the unhappiest people in Japan. This is the report, cabled by TIME'S Chungking Correspondent Theodore White last week, of a Chinese teacher who visited Japan last year on a puppet-government mission, has since repented his apostasy...
...holds that job as well as the Ministry for Greater East Asia Affairs. Acceptable to the Army and big business, he is considered a moderate. In 1938, he settled a serious border dispute with the Soviet Union. Last spring he transferred Japan's extraterritorial rights in China to Puppet Wang Ching-wei. His Greater East Asia responsibilities include the continent from Manchuria to Burma. When face-saving or gracious withdrawals become inescapable, Shigemitsu can do both with honorable grace...