Word: puppeteers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Early last week, amid ceremonial vodka-pouring, Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov signed a 20-year treaty of alliance with Soviet puppet Hungary. Exultantly he proclaimed: this is the last link in the barrier against the imperialist states. "The Soviet Union now has pacts with all the states on its western frontier-from the Black Sea to the Baltic...
...Pyongyang, capital of Soviet-occupied North Korea, there was an eye-filling parade last week. Leathery, sharp-eyed Kim II Sung, puppet boss of Korean Communists, reviewed the new Soviet-supplied North Korea People's Army. Citizens were summoned to attend. They shivered in subfreezing weather, shouting "Mansyeh!" (Long Life) as infantry, mounted machine guns, mortars and field guns swept past. Fighter planes with the Taikeuk (Korean national flag) droned overhead, dropping roses. All these fascinating weapons were not of Korean manufacture. Marveled the North Korea radio : "Equipment . . . Korean people have never seen before and do not even know...
This week, unable even to enter Kim's Korea, the U.N. Commission was ready to throw its problem, right back at Lake Success, ask U.N.'s Little Assembly what to do. And in North Korea, Kim was rushing the creation of a Soviet puppet government which might claim to speak for all Korea-while the Little Assembly was still talking...
Silent Orator. Charley wrote first drafts* for many of Roosevelt's fireside chats. From his littered desk, speeches poured out through a hundred throats. Senators and Cabinet members provided the name and the larynx, Charley the words and the wit. The Republicans cursed him, called him "the puppet-master" and "the greatest silent orator in America...
...take at the Regal, Jackie had to pay for the rest of his company, including a twelve-piece jazz band, a puppet act, and a comic who ate cigarettes. But he still had a lot left for himself...