Word: puppeteered
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...nations which had defeated Germany on the battlefield only 20 years before, but nothing so terrified the world as the ruthless, methodical, Nazi-directed events which during late summer and early autumn threatened a world war over Czechoslovakia. When without loss of blood he reduced Czechoslovakia to a German puppet state, forced a drastic revision of Europe's defensive alliances, and won a free hand for himself in Eastern Europe by getting a "hands-off" promise from powerful Britain (and later France), Adolf Hitler without doubt became 1938's Man of the Year...
...Tokyo, sleepy-eyed Japanese Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita meanwhile had told foreign correspondents that this extension of credit was a "regrettable act," and, if a political gesture against Japan, "most dangerous." Summoned to meet at Peking last week were the heads of the puppet Governments of Peking and Nanking and the "provisional" Governments of Hankow and Canton. One of the purposes of the meeting was to teach the puppets a politico-economic trick that has already been successfully employed by Japan in Manchukuo. Japan would formulate, the puppets promulgate, trade rules discriminating against other nations. Thus Japan will be able...
Russia, in popular estimation, remained during 1938 the world's No. 1 Godless State. Russia's policy has long been to tolerate religion, and even to maintain, for propaganda purposes, certain puppet churchmen, so long as it appeared that there were people who wished the church's ministrations. To many Christians there has been some encouragement in the fact that Russia's League of Militant Godless, whose work the Government approves, has continued to fare not very well. Last spring the Government jailed a good many Orthodox prelates in what was heralded as a new drive...
...said to be ready to declare "outlawed"the Chinese Generalis simo, famed Chiang Kaishek, who mean while last week himself held a supreme Chinese conference on strategy. To replace "Outlaw Chiang," the Japanese Government proposed to set up a new central Chinese Government, not another venal gang of mere puppets, such as those already established at Peking and Nanking, but a State headed by the Scholar Marshal, famed Wu Pei-fu. Marshal Wu had a long and brilliant military career under the Manchu Dynasty, thus might see eye-to-eye with a Japanese scheme to restore as Emperor of China...
...guest of Chief of Staff Malin Craig for Armistice Day ceremonies, Dictator Batista, though only informally the head of his State, is to exchange amenities at the White House with President Roosevelt. Likely topics of conversation for Colonel Batista in Washington: Who would make a mutually agreeable next puppet-President of Cuba? What about another U. S. naval base in Cuba, like the one now leased at Guantanamo...