Word: puppeteered
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...favor their cause, the Japanese prize him like some fragile T'ang Dynasty vase. Despite his record as a shifty recreant, despite the fact that Chinese honor him only in hatred, Wang is a brilliant mystic, not to be lightly dismissed. His establishment as Japan's super-puppet is therefore a major event in the China war. Japan hopes he will be able to bring about peace, but his beginnings last week augured ill for their hopes...
With utter tactlessness, Wang declared his Government the representative of the original and only Kuomintang (Nationalist Party), preempted the flag with a twelve-point star which Chinese soldiers carry in battle, absorbed all existing Japanese puppet regimes, commanded China's civil servants to leave Chungking and join him. He took a trip to Sun Yat-sen's tomb at Purple Mountain, near Nanking, there prayed and wept. By week's end he blandly approved "liquidation of the Chungking regime"-something 1,125,000 Japanese soldiers have spent two-and-one-half years trying to accomplish; and ordered...
...puppet-actors, it proves too elaborate. A puppet Cinderella needs more than a fairy godmother's wand to make it come alive. All the Johann Strauss music in the world cannot make puppets waltz with Alt Wien charm. When they imitate human beings, they come to grief...
Compared to the Piccoli's mechanical perfection, a puppet Pinocchio which also opened on Broadway last week merely strings along. But as a children's show (which the Piccoli primarily is not) it has its own naive, storybook charm. Unlike the Walt Disney cinema, it does not play ducks & drakes with the Collodi story...
...first anniversary of subjugation by Germany, Adolf Hitler and Emil Hacha, president of the Protectorate of Bohemia-Moravia, exchanged telegrams. The dictator wired: "It is no intention of Germany to put a burden on the Czech people that might threaten their national existence. ..." The puppet president wired that Bohemia hoped for the victory of Germany's "glorious armed forces...