Word: puppeteers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Young." If the Russians had hoped to find a puppet in Renner, they were sorely disappointed. A pure, anti-Communist Socialist, he has quietly boxed in all those left-wingers who might favor a merger with the Communists (for which Russia is pressing). Despite his age (76), Renner has taken a decisive hand in the business of his country. (Cracked one of his political opponents: "He is too young to be President...
...from industrial) policy in Korea. Said one: "It looks as though the Russians are there to stay." In Pyongyang, the Soviet capital, street corners, schools and shops were literally plastered with banners proclaiming the virtues of the Soviet system, the Red Army, and "General" Kim II Sung, the Soviet puppet leader. At night Pyongyang streets rang with rifle shots...
Died. Marshal Ion Antonescu, 63, premier and puppet führer of wartime Rumania; before a firing squad; at Jilava Prison near Bucharest. French-educated Antonescu, motivated more by hatred of Russia than by love for Germany, reduced Rumania to a Nazi satrapy, then tried in 1944 to conclude an armistice with the Western powers, failed, was trapped and imprisoned by King Michael...
...delicate balance between pomposity and farce. At rare moments in the comic scenes there is an overstraining after effect, but this can be blamed on the script. It is when Rostand tries to be another Shakespeare or Racine that the play loses its dash. The death of Christian, the puppet lover, and the end of Cyrano himself in a nunnery are on the edge of ennui. Written at a time when audiences liked their melodrama lush and their tears wet, these heroics leave the modern theatre-goer cold...
...come, too, to sell Manuel Roxas, and unsell the notion, widely propagated by U.S. Communists and proCommunists, that he carried a collaborationist taint from serving in a Jap puppet government. With him he brought the testimonial of General Douglas MacArthur, who said "consistently anti-Japanese . . . during . . . Bataan and Corregidor. . . . One of my most trusted and devoted officers." Then U.S. Navy Commander Charles ("Chick") Parsons gave conclusive evidence of Roxas' loyalty. He told of submarine trips he had made to contact Roxas during the Japanese occupation and to appoint him ringleader of U.S. espionage...