Word: puppeteers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Roxas and José Laurel wrote and signed the Philippine puppet constitution, which with the organization of the puppet republic constituted an act of rebellion against...
Roxas also swore allegiance to Laurel's puppet government, and agreed to the treaty of mutual alliance with Japan and the declaration of war by the puppet republic against...
...zone skeptics called the provisional regime a "Soviet puppet," charged that Kim II Sung was an impostor trading on the name of a legendary Korean resistance leader...
When Sikorski died in an airplane crash at Gibraltar, Mikolajczyk, at 42, became Prime Minister of the exile government. When Moscow created the rival puppet Polish government, which is still the hard core of the provisional regime in Warsaw, Mikolajczyk shuttled across half the globe -from London to Washington to Moscow-to see on what terms the Poles of London and the Poles of Lublin could get together. He talked and chain-smoked with Joseph Stalin in the Kremlin, parleyed with the Lublin left-wingers, worked out a compromise disowned by the right-wingers in London. He resigned in November...
...immense and monstrous traffic not only sought to weaken Chinese resistance; it provided Japanese business with a big investment opportunity: in Tientsin alone, 35% of all Japanese capital was used to set up opium shops and dens. In large part it financed both the Japanese Army and Chinese puppet regimes. Every phase of the traffic was regulated and taxed. From the Chinese hub, it radiated to all corners of the "Co-Prosperity Sphere": in Burma, Malaya and Indonesia, too, the number of addicts multiplied...