Word: puppeteered
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Chances were not too bright last week for Mr. Henry Pu Yi, former Emperor of China, who aspires to be Emperor of Manchuria. But Tokyo conceded that this weak young man with extremely weak eyes still has a chance to be chosen as Japan's Imperial Puppet. Furthermore, his proud Manchu mother, the daughter-in-law of his famed & terrible grandmother, the last real Empress Dowager, died last week...
...remained in Europe." But she continued, in the stilted phrases of her lawyers: "My gratitude does not in any way alter my conviction that she [Madame Zenatello] has been an untrustworthy and unfaithful agent." Husband August Mesritz gave details: "Not only did Maria Gay treat my wife as a puppet to be let out of a box or put in again at her behest but she seemed to live in deadly fear that my wife would become on intimate terms with the Metropolitan management or with other opera stars . . . constantly warned her that the people with whom she came...
...realized that there are more ways of fighting a war than the winning of battles. Manchuria troops moved out of Mukden almost without opposition and occupied the village of Lanchihpu. Military conquest of the three Manchurian provinces? Heilungkiang, Kirin, Fengtien?was almost complete. Behind a shield of Chinese puppet officials, Japanese authorities were rapidly turning the entire district into a Japanese colony...
General Honjo Digs In. With the capture of Tsitsihar (which Japanese estimated cost 300 Japanese lives, 3,000 Chinese) the Japanese forces in Manchuria under General Shigeru Honjo controlled all three Manchurian provincial capitals, Mukden (General Honjo's base) Kirin and nese had already dug in by establishing puppet Chinese governments at Mukden and Kirin. Last week they established Chinese Puppet Chang Chin-hui at Tsitsihar. To demonstrate the independence of these Chinese regimes General Honjo called attention to the fact that the Chinese Government of Southern Manchuria at Mukden had just adopted a budget of their own diligent...
...yellow race to a point where they will be equal if not superior in power to the Caucasians. At the basis of this change lies the naturalization of China. China, the largest country in the world with her population of 400,000,000 people, has been a puppet in the hands of the Europeanized nations with their national unity. In her disorganized state she has been helpless. Without any national feeling but controlled sectionally by selfish lords who relied on their army to keep them in power, China could not organize. But give her nationalism and the consequent organization...