Word: puppeteering
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...East Berlin's landing field, Puppet Premier Otto Grotewohl wrung Khrushchev's hand and anxiously inquired where the East German regime stood. Grotewohl had been alarmed by the Soviet invitation to Adenauer; he feared to be sacrificed in a Kremlin deal with Bonn. Khrushchev propped the puppets up, at least temporarily. "The score is one to nothing in favor of the [East German] Republic," he told Grotewohl...
...vague and equivocal" (he wanted them "automatic"), opposed SEATO as "unduly provoking Red China," and launched a virulent attack on Magsaysay's recognition of South Viet Nam, "a despotic oligarchy" which "does not possess the most elementary attributes of sovereignty." Magsaysay, he charged, was acting as "an American puppet...
...Arnold's treachery arrived, Peale created a two-faced effigy of the traitor, a letter from Beelzebub in one hand, a mask in the other, with the devil behind him (see cut). A small boy hidden in the wagon's false bottom pulled strings to keep the puppet dancing, to the delight of jeering Philadelphians. In 1781, when Colonel Tench Tilghman galloped into Philadelphia with the news that Cornwallis had surrendered, Peale promptly turned the windows of his house into an illuminated display. He filled the windows with colored cartoons of Washington and Rochambeau, titled SHINE VALIANT CHIEFS...
...little time to wonder. With the Russian occupation and its puppet regime come confiscation of church lands, curbs on church schools, threats and ultimatums: "Tell me, Father, which do you choose, the past or the future?" Father Janos chooses the eternal: "The mills of God grind smaller than those of the Communists, and one day they will pulverize them." When the official mills of the Communists grind out a law disbanding religious orders, Father Janos bids his fellow Jesuits go underground, or abroad, and himself becomes a modern catacomb Christian. But the secret police soon snap him up and jail...
...Parliament, the dispirited remnants of the late Jan Christiaan Smuts's United Party fought to the end. "The government is aiming at a puppet court which would ultimately be no better than a row of ventriloquists' dummies," shouted one M.P. before he was gaveled down. Many in the opposition were distressed more by what Strydom was doing to the courts than by what he was doing to the blacks. But Strydom had the votes: in the Lower House the bill passed its vital second reading...