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...were engaged upon a little encircling themselves. The entire length of the 630-mile Tientsin-Pukow Railway is now nominally under Japanese control, although the Japanese will have to operate it against ceaseless Chinese guerilla attacks. For Japan's political administrators in China the victory means that Chinese puppets of Japanese-controlled Nanking and Peking can at last be united under one big puppet Government...
Franco is the willing puppet of German and Italian Fascist imperialism. Lee was the faithful servant of his own people, and of them alone...
...Japanese aim is to clear the Tient-sin-Pukow Railway so the Japanese puppets of Peiping can be united with the equally submissive Nanking puppets. At one point north of Suchow the Japanese advance guard was stalled 15 miles from the Lunghai Railway. At another point south of Suchow a Japanese column was reported within 20 miles of the line. The southern force was small, however. Between it and the main southern army were scores of miles of hostile territory. A gap of at least a hundred miles had to be filled before the two puppet governments could meet...
...small country such as ours had to be very careful not to get mixed up in international politics through marriage." Confidant Koci's assurance was made with tongue-in-cheek. Zog has long been over his head in international waters. Since 1927 he has been a puppet of Mussolini. Italian non-interest-bearing loans bolster Albanian Government finances, the army is Italian-officered and Italy is Albania's best customer. Thus the wedding had to have the official Mussolini O.K., and Il Duce showed that he strongly approved this latest Italian-Hungarian-Albanian tie-up by having...
...eight years ending last December, burst out last week in Manhattan. Mr. Davila accused the present Rumanian Premier, the Orthodox Patriarch Miron Cristea, of being at heart just as anti-Semitic as the squelched Iron Guard, with the only difference that he consents to act as puppet for Carol II. The National Peasant Party, Mr. Davila declared, is "backed by the overwhelming majority of the people against the Court camarilla and the King's personal dictatorship...