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Married. Princess Senije, 27, third sister of King Zog I, Italy's puppet, poker-playing ruler of Albania; and H. R. H. Prince Mehmed-Abid of Turkey, youngest son of Sultan Abdul ("Abdul the Damned") Hamid II, onetime oppressor of Albanians; in Tirana...
...York Herald Tribune, published Road to War, a book which went far to provide the country with a new interpretation of its history. The U. S., according to Mr. Millis, had been sucked into war; Woodrow Wilson had been a victim of mistaken policies and a puppet of circumstance; the toils of propaganda, insidious stirrings of befuddled popular sympathy, the operation of businessmen and financiers, had dragged the U. S. into a foreign mess that took the lives of 126,000 citizen-soldiers. There were well-known facts: In the autumn of 1914 J. P. Morgan & Co. became agents...
Thus His Majesty the Emperor Kang Te of Manchukuo is happy in holding the thought that he was not set up by Japan as a puppet, but restored by loyal Chinese to a throne in the realm of his Manchu forefathers-a happy thought flatly contradicted by the facts...
...shek as Premier, were in daily diplomatic, negotiation with the Japanese Government, trying to save what they could. It appeared certain that North China would not obey Nanking's order to ship all silver stocks to the Capital, because 1) Japan would not permit her prospective new puppet state to be drained of silver, and 2) North Chinese owners of silver prefer to keep it in North China, no matter who governs the area...
...speech closed with a great buttering of Japan as Sir Samuel alluded to the current reduction of North China to the status of a Japanese puppet (see p. 22) in these terms: "I can only regard as unfortunate that events should have taken place which, whatever the actual truth of the matter may be, lend color to the belief that Japanese influence is being exerted to shape Chinese internal political developments and administrative arrangements. Anything which tends to create this belief can only do harm to the prestige of Japan and hamper the development, which we all desire...